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IT has been the aim of the author, in compiling and editing " The Indus- 
tries of New Orleans," to present the public with a concise and accurate 
J work on the many natural and artificial advantages of the city, and inci- 
dentally of the State, relative to trade, commerce, manufactures ; to note 
the cardinal causes which have combined to produce these results, and to 
call attention to present conditions and future probabilities. Except in the 
selection of the historical data, and the commercial, manufacturing and 
financial statistics which it contains, but little originality is claimed for the 
book, space having permitted the author to treat only of the salient features 
of the situation. 

Relying upon these merits and the sound judgment of the public for suc- 
cess, the work is committed to the press with these few words of explanation, 

ANDREW MORRISON. 

New Oi'leans^'Jaimary^ i88§. 




I.EE MONUMENT. 



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"Thu Past 7-10 

[Present and Future 1 1-24 

The Mississippi Jetties 11 

A Commercial Awakening 13 

The World's Fair 17 

The Great Staple 21 

The Louisiana Levees 24 

Trade and Commerce , 25-47 

The Commercial Organizations , 21; 

Transportation Lines 30 

Exports and Imports j^ 

Traffic with the Interior ^g 

Banking and Finance 42 

Leading Manufactures 43 

TiiE Municipality and State -1 S-53 

Building Iinprovements. . _ig 

The' New Orleans Newspapers ^o 

Louisiana's Resources -3 

'Representative Houses and Exposition Exiiiiuto;^s ::;- 

PROMINE^NT ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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The Lee Monument ■ . ■ ■' 4 

The Exposition Grounds 6 

Main Exposition Building 16 

Mexican National Headquarters 20 

The New Orleans Cotton Exchange 26 

United States Mint 38 

Jackson Square and St. Louis Catlicdrfij 40 

The Old French Market 47 

Citv Hall ?2 



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ORIOIN, EARIvY HISTORY AND PROGRESS 
OK NEW ORLEANS. 



TT7 O THE very date of this narrative, the history of New Orleans is one 
I continued succession of stirring events and romantic incident. The Cres- 
cent City has had, since its foundation, a share of War and Pestilence 
-and Misrule, such as but few communities have suffered in the same period. 
These visitations have seriously affected her growth and prosperity, and yet 
she is to-day the tenth city of the Republic with respect to inhabitants a id com- 
mercial importance, ranking next after San Francisco in the list — New York, 
Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Baltuiiore, Cincinnati, 
San Francisco. The buoyant characteristics of her populace, a blending of 
the Latin and Saxon peoples, with the former predominating, has doubtless 
had much to do with the city's rapid recovery from recurring calamities ; cer- 
tainly pluck and indomitable energy have, time and again, been well illustrated 
in the conduct of her citizens after great reverses. Just at present tie city 
-enjoys what is colloquially known as a "boom," partly because of the 
World's Exposition, but as much the result of an enlivened public int rest in 
the advancement of this section, to which the newspapers, the comriercial 
organizations and Congressional representatives have contributed their best 
efforts. 

THE SOUTHERNMOST METROPOLIS 

Of the Republic, is situated on the right bank of the Mississippi, ninety-two 
miles from its mouth. It was there founded by Bienville, Governer of the 
French possessions, in the year 1718. LaSalle, the explorer, had unsuccess- 
fully attempted to establish a settlement somewhere in this region, in 1684. 
Ibei-ville, with a colony, in 1699, had better fortune. Crozat held a monop- 
oly of the trading privileges of the country for some years after this. The 
notorious John Law, the monumental swindler of modern times, was at the 
head of the chartered company that acquired this interest in 1717, or there- 
about. Law's gigantic schemes involved about all the French nation, and 
Bienville's removal of the seat of government from Biloxi was strongly op- 
posed by agents of the corporation. Nevertheless the change was mad to 



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the site he had selected, in 1719, the necessary buildings having been erected» 
in the meantime. Inundations forced an abandonment of the place for three- 
years after, but the occupation of the post was renewed in 1722, and perma- 
nently made the year following. The village was named Nouvelle Orleans, 
after the Due d' Orleans, who was afterward Louis XV. of France. The- 
whole population then was about 200. An accession of Germans, who had 
been deceived by Law with a prospect further north on the river, reached 
the little settlement that same year. They turned their attention to agricul- 
ture, and presently the town had an additional impetus. 

the first half century. 

Perier succeeded Bienville in 1726. His services are remembered be- 
cause he built the first levee — ^something over a mile long — in 1727. A com- 
pany of Jesuits, and one of Ursuline nuns, arrived from France in this same 
summer. Grants of land were made them which the Fathers occupied until 
1763, when they were expelled from the colony by order of Pope Clement 
XIIL The most valuable real estate in the city is that which was then con- 
fiscated by order of the French government, that along Gravier and Mag- 
azine streets in the heart of the business quarter. The Cotton Exchange and 
the St. Charles hotel are within this district. Yellow fever first afflicted the 
colony in 1769. It was introduced with a cargo of slaves brought by a Brit- 
ish vessel. In that year, also, the colony of Louisiana was transfened to 
Spain, and Alexander O'Reilly, a man of arbitrary disposition, administered 
affairs so rigorously that many of the inhabitants removed to the West Indies 
to escape oppression. The restrictive Spanish policy caused the colony to 
decline, but this repressive course was discontinued under more moderate 
Governors, especially during the term of Bernardo de Galvez, who took of- 
fice in 1777, and of Estevan Miro (1784). In 1788, a fire destroyed 900 of 
the houses of the city. The population in 1785, exclusive of the neighboring 
settlements, was 4,780. Privileges of trade were granted in 1782, which at- 
tracted a company of French merchants and numerous British traders. En- 
terprising merchandizers of Philadelphia, indifferent to the Spanish revenue 
laws, so popularized their methods that the Governor abandoned his opposi- 
tion to them. General Wilkinson brought from Kentucky the first shipment 
of tobacco. Many Americans flocked in, and new life was infused into the 
settlement. 

great strides of progress. 

The Baron de Carondelet, who was Governor from 1793 to 1797, pr(;- 
jected and accomplished many improvements. Under his direction, thc- 
streets were lighted, a fire system organized, and the Carondelet Canal vva^ 
dug. Militia were equipped and organized, and fortifications, consisting of 
a fort where the U. S. Mint now stands, and another at the foot of Canal 
street, were erected. A newspaper, the Moniteur^ was issued about this- 
time too. The treaty of Madrid, agreed to in 1795, permitted freer trade.- 



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A revival of business followed it, particularly with the United States. In the 
year 1800 Spain conveyed the province back to France, by whom it was held 
until its purchase by the United States in 1803, for the sum of $15,000,000. 

New Orleans thus became an American city. Her population was then 
about 8,000. The city's limits were Canal, Rampart, Esplanade and the 
River. "At the time of the transfer to the United States," says an account 
of this period, " the public property consisted of two large brick stores on 
the Levee, a government house at the corner of Levee and Toulouse streets, 
a military hospital and a powder magazine on the other side of the river, an 
old frame custom house, extensive barracks, a town house, market house, 
assembly room and prison, a cathedral and presbytery, and a charity hospi- 
tal. What are novs^ the most thriving business blocks, were then a plantation 
belonging to Gravier, after whom one of the streets running through the dis- 
trict is named." 

UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES. 

Great iinprovements followed the American occupation. W. C. Clai- 
borne was the Territorial Govei'nor of Louisiana and held the same office 
after it was admitted as a State in 1S13. In 1805 the city of New Orleans 
was incorporated. In the seven years ending with 18 10 the population had 
trebled, the very respectable figure of 24,552 inhabitants being recorded for 
the city. Commerce and trade expanded in like proportion. A steamboat 
having the same name as the city arrived at the Levee in 18 12. 

The decisive battle of New^ Orleans, the most meinorable event of these 
times, was fought on the 8th of January, 1815. The glory of an achieve- 
ment that has not since been eclipsed, is due that stern old warrior, Andrew 
Jackson, afterwards President of the United States. The story is too well 
known to need repetition. Sir Edward Packenham's attack on the city was 
repulsed on the field of Chalmette, a spot now just outside the city limits. 
The British lost 3,000 in killed and wounded including their commander; 
the Americans had but seven killed and six wounded. Jackson's men were 
protected by cotton bales, pi-obably the most remarkable use to which the 
staple has ever been put. 

AN UNEXAMPLED ERA. 

The first theatre, the American, was erected in 1823 by Jas. H. Cald- 
well, a most enterprising citizen, who was also the first to introduce gas for 
street lighting. Water works were established in 1834. 

The period from 1830 to 1840, and that from 1850 to i860 were decades 
of extraordinary prosperity and progress. In the first of these the popula- 
tion of the city increased from 49,826 to 102,191 souls; in the other, from 
1-19,460 to 174,491. The city's advance was amazing. But the four years 
of Civil War, themselves a blank in the commercial chronicles, were fol- 
lowed by a time of unparalleled depression. The unha2Dpy seasons after 
the close of hostilities have been eloquently depicted by a distinguished gen- 



lo The Industries of New Orleans. 

tleman of the city, E. H. Summers, Esq., in a speech at the opening of the 
Cotton Exchange. 

"When that long and devastating war," said he, "was ended, we 
found our beloved city crippled in her conimerce on every side. • The neces- 
sities of a mighty nation, battling against us, had gi-eatly aided in tappings 
at many points, the great artery of our commerce, the grand old Father of 
Waters, and our products were being taken from our very doors to the great 
Atlantic cities, where wealth, capital and prosperity all invited them. Our 
cotton factors, at the same time, found themselves embaiTassed by the in- 
dorsement of planter's paper, the main security having vanished by the fate 
of war. 

TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS. 

" But we went to work with a will, settled our debts as best we could, 
and launched our little barks again into the great sea of commerce. Scarce- 
ly had we emerged upon the open ocean, before the great storm of 1S67 
struck us with all its force. Our planters, with the pittance left them, had 
gone to work in earnest and with brightest hopes of an abundant harvest. 
The disastrous results you all know. Suffice it to say, that this unexpected 
and most lamentable failure of crops, together with the heels of Parish, State 
and Federal collectors, was more than our poverty stricken people could 
endure, and the result was widespread demoralization, bad faith, and diver- 
sion of crops on all sides. But the cotton factors of the city had to breast 
this storm. We had to stand by our posts. To succumb, was inevitable 
ruin. Our chief capital was our untarnished names, and I am proud to 'say 
that but few fell by the wayside. 

"This year, gentlemen, taught us a useful lesson, and that was, that in- 
the then disorganized and demoralized condition of our country, our main 
reliance must be in the integrity, capacity, industry, and good management 
of our constituents. Though we have met with difficulties that would have 
deterred a less resolute set of men, we have never faltered." 

To summarize the events of the century, it may be said that the worst 
experiences of the commercial community have been the disasters incident 
to the war of 1812, the bankruptcies of 1S37, the financial troubles of 1S42, 
the national panic of 1857, and the long pei'iod of depression following the 
war. Political disorders, local and sectional in their chai^acter, have most 
seriously retarded mercantile affairs since 1865. Gradually, however, these 
evils are being overcome, and the promise of more satisfactory times is now 
being fulfilled. 

According to the Federal census of 1880, the population of New Or- 
leans was 216,140. It is believed now to be upwards of 250,000. In 1880 
the statistics showed : Whites, 158,379; Blacks, 57,761. Natives, 174,965; 
foreign born, 41,075. Males, 100,919; females, 115,321. 



PRBSBNT AND FUTURE. 



KNTKRPRISES BECOIVLING A GRKAT 

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TT S has been already remarked, whatever of romantic interest there is in- 
JyvH the early annals of New Orleans, has by the bitter experience of later 
years been sadly reyersed. Recent happenings have brought the 
merchants of this metropolis face to face with commercial rivals of un- 
common persistence and speed. St. Louis and Cincinnati, particularly, are 
fast encroaching upon all the territory that was formerly tributary to the 
Crescent City. Difficulties such as have been met with by the business people 
of this community, might well dishearten tradesmen with less of spirit, but 
the men who have outlasted the troublous times since 1865, are not so easily 
to be discouraged. Favored by nature with surroundings of surpassing fer- 
tility, blessed with a situation commanding one of the richest quarters of the 
globe, appreciating thoroughly their advantages as well as drawbacks, un- 
usual efforts have been put forth to overcome all obstacles, with results that 
are already noticeable. These attempts are described in the chapter that 
follows, viz : the completion of the Jetties, the revival of Spanish American 
Trade, and the grand Exposition scheme, all of which are enterprises becom- 
ing a great and an expanding community. 

THE MISSISSIPPI JETTIES. 

The shoaling of the entrance-ways, or "passes," through the delta of 
the Mississippi had been a serious impediment to the foreign commerce of 
New Orleans from its first settlement. The immense accumulation of de- 
bris, brought down to its mouths by the great river, was constantly bringing 
about a shifting and obstruction of the channel by which ships must enter to 
reach their landing places. So early as 1726, attempts were made to remedy 
this difficulty, but the inexperienced engineers of that day were unequal to 
the task. A government sui-vey in 1835 exhausted an appropriation of $350,000. 
Up to 1850, no great injury was suffei-ed, although vessels were put to much 
inconvenience, because carrying crafts were not then above 500 tons burthen. 
But about that time the necessities of trade required the use of ships of greater 
register, and in 1853 a merchant fleet of forty sail was aground on the bar 
for periods of from two days to eight weeks each. The War Department 
then took the matter in hand and from 1853 to 1856 an open channel was 
maintained. In 1856 more extensive improvements were made by construct- 
ing a jetty at the Southwest pass, by harrowing and dredging, this channel 



12 The Industries of New Orleans. 

thus having, in i860, a depth of eighteen feet. During the war the work 
was neglected, but, at its close, dredging was renewed until in 1873 the Ar- 
my engineers gave their opinion that the operations then in vogue could not 
maintain a depth of three fathoms. 

Congress, urged by demands of all sorts, sent from all sections of the 
South and West, invited plans for the reojDening of the river to navigation. 
The most striking suggestions were : 

A ship canal from Fort St. Phillip to the Gulf (recommended by the 
Army engineers in 1857) to cost $13,000,000. 

The building of jetties at the mouth of the river, a system of removing 
bars that had been tried successfully in deepening the Danube, Vistula, Oder, 
Dwina, and other important rivers of Europe. 

ead's proposal. 

Captain James B. Eads, the builder of the great St. Louis bridge, 
stronglv urged the adoption of the jetty scheme. He proposed to contract 
with the government to oi^en, for $10,000,000, a channel between the South- 
west Pass and the Gulf, twenty-eight feet deep ; he to be paid in installments 
as the work progressed. The plan for a canal was the more popular scheme 
in Washington, but eventuality, by the passage of an act of 1875, Eads se- 
cured a contract by which he was to receive $500,000 when he had made 
a channel twenty feet deep and 300 feet wide at the bottom, provided that 
was effected in thirty months, and $500,000 for each additional two feet of 
depth and correspondingly increased width, until thirty feet depth and 350 
feet width were obtained. He was to receive, all told, $5,250,000, of which 
$1,000,000 was to be retained as security that the jetties would accomplish 
their purj^ose, together with $100,000 a year for twenty years for keeping the 
works in repair. 

He commenced work in the same year and by 1S79 had practically com- 
pleted his undertaking, having then got a sufficient width and twenty-six feet 
of depth. In 1S84 a depth of from thirty to thirty-two feet, eight inches was 
sounded. The Jetties may briefly be described to be a foundation of willow 
mattress weighted down with stone, on which is laid a concrete wall. The 
east jetty is two and a third miles long ; the western about one and a half 

miles. 

repeated safe passages 

By vessels of the greatest draft have fully demonstrated the success of them. 
The English steamer Silvertoii^ with a draft of twenty-five feet four inches, 
and the City^of JVew 2'ork, drawing six inches deeper, have both passed 
safely through. Says a leading daily of New Orleans : 

"Hon. Jos. H. Burrows, of Missouri, in a speech on the improvement 
of the Mississippi River stated that the transportation rates on a bushel of 
wheat shipped ^from the centre of the Valley at St. Louis, by river, to the 
seaboard 'at_New Orleans, during, the three years 1877, 1878, and 1879, ranged 
all the way fromjen to fifteen cents less than by rail to the seaboard at New 



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Yoi-k. That, owing to the jetties, half of the total grain produced in the 
fourteen Valley States could be shipped from St. Louis to New Orleans, in- 
stead of by rail to New York, with an annual saving to the seaboard at ten 
cents per bushel, which would be $90,381,553, and at fifteen cents per bushel, 
$135672,320." 

That the benefits to accrue from this great work will be lasting, is evi- 
dent from what was said of Eads by the engineer who supei^vised the work 
for the Government: — 

" The deep and permanent channel at the mouth of the Mississippi River 
is an imperishable monument to his genius." 

A COMMERCIAL AWAKENING. 

The immense possibilities of Commerce with the South American States, 
a trade amountnig to hundreds of millions annually, out of which New 
Orleans gets but an insignificant portion, have been publicly discussed and 
agitated much of late in that city. The New Orleans limes-Democrat has 
zealously urged the merchants of the city to contest with more spirit 
against the New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and foreign shippers for a 
larger share of this desirable traffic than they now have. 

" The odious and oppressive quarantine system of Louisiana, that, more 
than any lack of energy stifled the trade from hence, has been abolished," says 
that journal. " The export and import trade of Mexico, Central America, the 
tropical states of South America, and the Antilles, amounts to the sum of 
$708,000,000 per annum. Of this, the United States has acquired only about 
a third. The manufacturers and traders of the Mississippi Valley which, ac- 
cording to the latest census, turns out forty per cent, of the manufactured 
goods of the United States, and for which section New Orleans is the outlet, 
get but an inconsiderable share of it." 

Nothing seems to be necessary to secure a fairer proportion of this inter- 
tropical traffic but the introduction of the superior products of the Mississippi 
Valley which are everywhere 

PREFERRED TO FOREIGN GOODS. 

Mexico has coffee, rubber, hemp, dye woods, indigo, fruits, precious 
metals, etc., to exchange for textile fabrics, hardware, and western products. 
Belize, or British Honduras, famed for its dye and furniture woods, has 
steam communication with New Orleans. The imports of Guatemala are 
this year estimated at $3,500,000; the exports $4,500,000. The foreign 
commerce of this State is increasing wonderfully. Port Livingston and Santo 
Tomas on the Caribbean are free i^orts. Three lines of steamers run be- 
tween New Orleans and the ports of Honduras. San Salvador, the smallest 
but the most flourishing of the Central American republics, lies on the west 
coast, and New Orleans does not trade with it. England has half of its traflic. 
Nicaragua exports 4,500,000 pounds of coffee. Steamers run from New Or- 
leans to the principal ports. Costa Rica with fewer inhabitants has a greater 



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commerce than any of its sister States. In iSSi, coffee to the amount of 
$5,000,000 was exported. England holds half of the miscellaneous traffic of 
this little community, but a promising business between it and New Orleans 
has been built up by the establishment of a semi-monthly steam packet line. 
Jamaica, Cuba, Hayti, and San Domingo produce sugar and coffee, and ex- 
port fruits which find a roundabout way to the Mississippi Valley via New 
York. The total export and import trade of the West Indies is $309,780,000. 
Of this 

THE UNITED STATES GETS : 

Imports (principally provisions) $ 30, 143,000 

Exports (mainly sugar) 78,532,000 

Total American W. I. traffic $ 108,675,000 

Or a fraction more than a third of the whole. The Mississippi Valley, via ' 
New Orleans, gets but little of this. Now, however, that the new quaran- 
tine system is to be established, the steamers that run to Havana and Jamaica 
from New Orleans, during the winter months only, will continue to ply the 
year round. 

The United States of Columbia are half the area of Mexico. The coun- 
try is extravagantly rich in all sorts of tropical productions. Hitherto the efforts 
to supply its wants from New Orleans have been experimental merely. 
There is prospect that a permanent connection will shortly be established. 
Both Venezuela and Columbia are rich in metals. The three Guianas have 
an annual export and import trade of nearly $30,000,000, not a dollar of which 
reaches New Orleans. Brazil has about the same population as Mexico. 
Its trade is almost altogether with Europe, New York having a little of it. 

This Spanish-American trade will aggregate $1,000,000,000 annually. 
New Orleans, including her cotton trade with Mexico, the fruit traffic with 
Central America, and sugar from Havana, gets about $3,000,000 worth of it 
all told, notwithstanding the advantages of geographical position, vicinage 
and reciprocal feeling that are upon her side. It is therefore gratifying to 
note that her merchants are fast awakening to a realization of the situation, and 
that New Orleans drummers are now doing active work in all these regions. 
The matter that follows is quoted from the argument made before the South 
American Trade Commissioners, by representatives from the various ex- 
changes of the city upon 

THE SUBJECT IN POINT : 

" The value of the products of the Mississippi Valley has been esti- 
mated at nearly $4,000,000,000; their natural outlet to the world is through 
the city of New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico. It is conceded that we have 
at all times a superabundance of products which are needed by our Southern 
neighbors, and that there exists here a ready market for the articles usually 
exported by them. Large as the interests of New Orleans are in that direction 
they will in the near future be immensely increased by the removal of the bar- 



The Industries of New Orleans. 15 

rier imposed by nature between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, by the 
completion of the Panama Canal, the Tehuantepec Ship Railway, and pos- 
sibly another canal across the Republic of Nicaragua, throwing open to her 
merchants not only the trade of the western coasts of Mexico, Central and 
South America, bvit that of Japan, China, India, Atistralia and the islands 
of the Pacific. 

The immense capabilities of New Orleans in this direction being con- 
ceded, it should be understood that the chief impediment in the way of her 
merchants availing themselves of these opportunities, have been the obnox- 
ious and obstructive quarantine laws, which have virtually closed this port 
against Southern Commerce for one-half of every year, rendering it impossi- 
ble to profitably establish regular steam communication w^ith a large number 
of the ports of the Gulf of Mexico. Under its destructive influences. West 
Indian, Mexican, Central and South American trade have languished, and 
in some directions become almost extinct. 

One of the natural consequences of the quarantine obstructions has been 
the 

SCARCITY OF SHIPPING. 

It is a fact patent to every, one interested in the coinmerce of this port, that 
New Orleans does not possess suflicient lines of steamers, consequently com- 
inunication is irregular and sometimes entirely lacking and freights are high. 
There is at present only one line to Vera Cruz, one to Havana, one to 
Jamaica, and a few to the coast of Guatemala and Honduras. None to the 
United States of Columbia, the Guianas or Venezuela. A direct line of 
steamers to Venezuela would have been established some time since, but for 
the fear of loss to their owners from quarantine obstructions. 

But there is now a pi'ospect of the establishment of such regulations as 
will harmonize the necessities of commerce with a sti'onger quarantine against 
the importation of pestilence. As an illustration of the effect of the lack of 
transportation facilities, the following statistics will be interesting, showing 
the value of certain articles of Western production exported to South Conti- 
nental ports in 1883, from the whole United States and from New Orleans: 

From U. S. From N. O. 

Flovir $13,743,184 $459489 

Pork 1,542,867 40?45o 

Bacon, etc 1,155,780 13,106 

Lard 3,418,811 18,422 

$19,860,642 $531467 

The importations of tropical productions, coinpared in a similar manner, 
show the same unfavorable figures for the commerce of New Orleans. 

The intelligent and combined efforts, now being directed toward im- 
proving this condition of things, give promise of a better state of affairs in 
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THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



The preparations for the grand World's Industrial Exposition long- 
since gave to the business of New Orleans an extra impetus, the effect 
of which has not yet subsided. This magnificent project was first sug- 
gested by a proposition of the National Cotton Planters' Association to hold 
a special cotton exposition in the year 1SS4, the centennial year of the cotton 
trade in America. That \vas in 1S82. Subsequently, upon public consid- 
eration of the matter, the original scheme was elaborated, and a World's 
Fair, that should surpass anything yet undertaken of that nature was pro- 




jected. Congress was invoked to assist the undertaking, with the effect that 
official recognition was given the plan by the passage of an act providing for 
a Board of Management, for Commissioners from all the States, for a Gov- 
ernment exhibit and other details. The Cotton Planters' Association was 
privileged to select a site for the building, and New Orleans was its choice. 
Abundant finances were speedily obtained. Congress voted a loan of $1,- 
000,000, and $200,000 besides for the Government exhibit, the State of Lou- 
isiana and the city of New Orleans each contributed $100,000. The popu- 




HorticuUural Hall. 

lar subscription exceeded $500,000. Various States appropriated fronx 
$5,000 to $30,000, and numerous cities smaller amounts. Foreign States, 
were not less generous, Mexico alone granting $200,000 for the expenses of 
her special exhibit. The buildings erected for the Exposition cover a greater 
area than has ever been taken up with a similar design. The main build- 
ing, in which is located the machinery department, is 1378x905 feet. It 



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•covers thirty-three acres. The building for the Government and State ex- 
hibits is 885x565 feet. The Horticultural Hall, 600x194 feet, is intended 
to be permanent, becoming, by arrangement, the property of the city, which 
•will then own the largest conservatory in the world. The display of cotton 
and allied exhibits is in an annex 350x120, which also contains the sugar ex- 
hibit. The Art Gallery is a plain structure of iron 300 x 100. 




THE MEXICAN NATIONAL BUILDINGS, 

Veritable palaces, are a distinctive feature of the vast whole. 

The special features of the Exposition are what is called the Tropical 
•display, the Cotton exhibit, the Government's exhibit, the department de- 
voted to an exposition of the work and progress of the colored race, and that 
illustrating women's work. 

Grand concerts, vocal and instrumental, are given regularly in what is 
known as Music Hall, which has a seating capacity for 11,000 people and 
-600 musicians, and a mammoth organ. 

The premiums in the horticultural department amount to $33,000, in 
the department of agriculture and live stock $68, 000. 

The Carnival pageants occur al)out the middle of the Exposition period. 
An international drill, which will be participated in by the vState Militiamen, 
soldiers of the United States, Mexican and Spanish (Cuban) armies, is on 
the programme. 

Presidents Diaz of Mexico, and Arthur will grace the occasion. The 
Exposition lasts six months; Dec. i6th, 1884, to May 31st, 1885. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 19 

The officers of the Exposition organization under the act of incorpora- 
tion are : 

Edmvmd Richardson, president ; Albert Baldwin, first vice-president ; 
Wm. B. Schmidt, second vice-president; Richard Nixon, secretary; John B. 
Lafitte, vice Thos. H. Hunt deceased, treasurer; E. A.Burke, director-gen- 
•eral ; F. C. Moi'ehead, commissioner-general. 

Board of Management — Edmund Richardson, Albert Baldwin, Wm. 
JB. Schmidt^ F. C. Morehead, Gov. R. M. Patton, Thos. Hardeman, Jr., 
Duncan F. Kenner, E. M. Hudson, Jules C. Denis, Simon Hernsheim, 
Samuel H. Buck, John V. Moore, G. A. Breaux. 

Advisory Finance Committee — Hon. W. J. Behan, chairman ; Robert 
■S. Howard, Joseph H. Oglesby, A, J. Gomila, C. M. Soria. 

General Finance Committee — Hon. W. J. Behan, chairman ; Clement 
L. Walker, secretary ; Jules Aldige, Bertrand Beer, A. S. Badger, A. Brittin, 
Jesse K. Bell, Charles A. Bvitler, E. L. Carriere, Jno. Chaffe, H. Dudley 
■Coleman, E. P. Cottreaux, E. F. Del Bondio, Jas. D. Edwards, B. F. 
Eshelman, Jno. W. Fairfax, R. F. Gray, A. J. Gomila, Robert S. Howard, 
Andrew Hero, Jr., Frank T. Howard, Sigmund Katz, Carl Kohn, Victor 
Latour, E. T. Manning, A. A. Maginnis, P. R. Middlemiss, Adolphe 
Meyer, B. J. Montgomery, A. J. Michaelis, E. Miltenberger, Joseph 
H. Oglesby, J. G. Schriever, C. M. Soria, Adam Thomson, E. A. Weeks, 
Joseph A. Walker, E. B. Wheelock, E. D. Willet, B. D. Wood. 

The following gentlemen having been appointed to carry out the work 
•of ei'ecting the buildings, attending to and adorning the ground, collecting 
exhibits, etc., are responsible for the details of management in their respec- 
tive positions : 

E. A. Burke, director-general and chief executive officer. 

F. C. Morehead, commissioner-general. 

G. M. Torgeson, supervising architect. 
F. N. Ogden, chief superintendent. 

S. H. Oilman, consulting engineer. 
Parker Earl, chief of department of horticulture. 
George B. Loring, chief of department of agriculture. 
B, K. Bi^uce, chief of department of colored exhibit. 
Samuel Mullen, chief of department of installation. 
Charles L. Fitch, chief of department of transportation. 
B. T. Walshe, chief of department of information and accommodation. 
Thomas Donaldson, chief of department of ores, minerals, and woods. 
John Eaton, chief of department of education. 

Wm. H. H. Judson, chief of department of printing and publishing. 
Chas. W. Dabney, Jr., chief of department of Government and State 
exhibits, 

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, chief of department of women's work. 




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THE GREAT STAPLE. 

In connection with the topic which has just been reviewed, some ac- 
count of the commercial features and history of the cotton industry may not 
l»e out of place. The facts and figures hereafter cited are culled from all the 
sources at command, and ci-edit should be given to the newspapers of the 
day, and to the industrious pamphleteers who are showering stores of know- 
ledge on a book-hungry public, for the compilation of them in brief and com- 
prehensive form. 

The cotton plant, it is said, was discovered growing wild on the banks of 
the Mississippi by the first explorers of that region. It must have been in- 
digenous to America, for the Aztec Mexicans manufactured really fine fabrics 
from the snowy staple. The first shipment of cotton grown in the United 
States to England, was in 1784-85 ; the year 1884 is therefore the centennial 
year of exportation. It is well settled that the year 162 1 is the date of the 
first cultivation of cotton in the American colonies. There is authority that 
cotton was experimented with in Louisiana so far back as 1760, although the 
crop of the State did not figure in the market quotations until about the be- 
ginning of this century. President Madison foresaw the proportions to which 
the cotton trade would rise, when he predicted in 1786, that it would become 
one of the main resources of the Republic. In that same year, there was a 
sentiment sufficient to induce Congress to protect 

THE INFANT INDUSTRY 

By putting a duty of three cents per pound on foreign cotton. About this 
■date also, the first of the famous Sea Island cotton was raised in South Caro- 
lina and Georgia. In 1801, production had so far prospered as to make the 
yield 100,000 bales; in 181 1, the crop was just double that figure, Louisi- 
ana's proportion of the whole was about 6,000 bales. At the close of the 
war of 18 12, the crop had reached 250,000 bales for all the States. 

In 1802 the exports from New Orleans included 34,000 bales of cotton. 
After the acquisition of Louisiana by the United States the exports of cotton 
from the Crescent City were: 1819 — 99,013 bales; 1820 — 112,961 bales; 
182 1 — 136, 770 bales. By that time the planters of Louisiana were raising 25,000 
tales. Before that year South Carolina took the lead in cotton production, 
with Georgia second. This position was reversed in the year 1821. Louisiana's 
crop in 1833 had so increased that 137,500 bales was reported for her. The 
crop was profitable because next to the Sea Island staple, that of Louisiana 
and the Mississippi lowlands is the finest quality. The crop of 1834 in the 
South, was estimated at i,ood,odo bales of which nearly half was exported. 
From this point the crop of the nine leading cotton States, Georgia, South 
■Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Ten- 
nessee and Florida increased steadily, although it fluctuated somewhat from 
one year to another. The figures are : 

1845-6 2,100,537 1858-9 64,019,000 1857-8 3,257,000 

1856-7 3,094,000 1859-60. .. 4,861,000 1860-61. . .3,849,000 



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AN INDESTRUCTIBLE RESOURCE. 

There is a blank in the record from i86i to 1S64, caused by the war. 
The CTreat industry was, during this era, most effectually crippled. Never- 
theless upon the resumption of the avocations of peace, and despite all the 
drawbacks consequent upon the altered state of affairs and the general in- 
rolvency, planting was renewed with such vigor that the crop of 1865-6 
seached the very respectable figure of 2.27S.000 bales. Gradually expanding 
year by year, 4,347,000 bales were credited to the harvest of 1S70-71, and 
although the next years fell far short of that, 1873-4 nearly equalled it, and 
1875-6 outnumbered it largely. 

The crops since then have been (in bales) : 
1876-7. .. .4,474,000 1S79-S0. .. .5,761.000 18S2-3. . . .6.949,756 
1877-8. .. .4,774,000 1SS0-81 ... .6,606,000 18S3-4. .. .5,713,200 

1878-9. . . .5,074,000 188 1-2 5,546,000 

The average annual increase over ante-bellum days has since been 1,000,- 
000 bales. x\ccording to the last census reports, Louisiana, with a production 
of 508,569 bales (1880) ranked seventh in the list of cotton growing States. 
The State has about 900,000 acres in cotton. The same authority says New 
Orleans handled more than a fourth of the entire cotton crop of the country. 

HOME MANUFACTURE. 

The first cotton mill operated in America was the one erected in Rhode 
Island in 1791. Twenty years later there were ninety flourishing mills in the 
New England States. By the year 1858 these enterprises were sufticiently 
numerous in America to consume a fifth of our whole crop. It is a patent 
fact that the manufacturing of cotton pays better in Great Britain than any 
other of her leading industries. That country used 3,212,000 bales of the 
raw material during 1882, The mills of the United States turned into fab- 
rics in 1883, some 2,073,096 bales, nearly three times as much as France^ 
and far more than three times as much as Germany. It can thus be seen 
what a factor cotton is in the transactions of the world. 

The one thing lacking to complete the picture of Southern progress, as- 
shown in this brief outline sketch, is the introduction of the mills and fac- 
tories in the section that raises the raw material. Of late years a realization 
of the advantages to be derived from such establishments has struck Capital 
with much force, and the signs are that this new industrial movement will 
become still more general. New discoveries of coal in the South, and other 
favorable developments have greatly encouraged these projects, and there 
are now 314 mills in the Southern States. New Orleans, unfortunately, has 
not felt the awakening yet. She has but one running, the Lane Mill, which, 
inaugurated in 1859, has had an eventful industrial history, and is now in 
the capable hands of Lehman, Abraham & Co., the well known factors, who- 
have made it pay. There are now seven mills in Louisiana. 

The result of a century's culture of this textile summed up is: 1784 — 8« 
bales: 1883 — 7,000,000 bales. 



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33; 



last year s movements. 

The following tables are self-explanatory : 

RECEIPTS AT NEW ORLEANS. 

From— 1883-S4. 18S2-S3.- 

Red River 104,039 193,456' 

Ouachita River 96,775 154,661 

Arkansas River 2,096 16,833 

Illinois Central R. R 328,896 427, i lo^ 

Morgan's R. R i34>775 141,285 

Texas and Pacific R. R 140, 198 14^ S67 

Mississippi Valley R. R 27 

N. O. and N. E. R. R 79,466 

Mississippi and other sources 629,162 508 490 

Total all soui-ces 1,514,434 1,676,711 

TOTAL EXPORTS OF COTTON 

FROM NEW ORLEANS, BY COUNTRIES, FROM AUGUST I, 1883, TO JULY 3 1', 18S4 

INCLUSIVE. 



Countries 

Austria 

B'^lgiam 

England 

France 

Germany 

Italy 

Mexico 

Russia 

Spain 

Total in 1S83-84 

Total in 1S82-S3 

Total in 1881-82 



Bales 



Amount. 



313 

5,808 

793,337 
364,842 
126,015 

31,734 

9,148 

75,880 

59,530 



1,466,607 
1,601,097 
1,200,523 



16,000- 

^75,iSi 
38,763,547 

17,349,895 
5,891,105, 
1,529,104 
451,189. 
3,789,478' 
2,960,471 



$ 71,025,973. 
79,665,175 
63,390,097 



The latest reports of the cotton crop of 1SS4 indicate a total yield of 
5,580,000 bales. 

As showing the relations of New Orleans to the cotton trade, the fol- 
lowing data are quoted : 



Years. 



1865-66 
1866-67 
1867-68 
1868-69 
1869-70 
1870-71 
1871-72 
1872-73 
1873-74 
1874-75 



Total Crop 
of South. 



2,i54>476 
1,951,988 
2,430,893 

2,260,557 

3.iH>592 
4,347,006 

2,974,351 
3,930,508 

4,185, S34 
3)832,991 



Receipts at 
N. O. 



711,629 
702,131 

579.231 
794,205 
1,142,097 
1,446,490 
957,538 
1,240,384 
1,221,698 

993.775 



Years . 



1875-76 
1876-77- 
1877-78- 
1878-79 
1879-80 
i88o-8i 
1881-82 
18S2-83. 
1883-S4 



Total Crop 
of South. 



4,699,288 

4,485,423 
4,773,865 

5,074,155 
5,761,252 
6,605,750 
5,450,048 
6,949,756 
5,713,200 



Receipts at 
N. O. 



1.415,959 
1. 195.035 
1.391.519 
1.187,365 

1.504,654 
1,606,184 
1,190,711 
1,690,709 
1,529,188 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 



THE LOUISIANA LEVEES. 

Incidental to an account of the commercial vigor of the great Southern 
community with its tributary territory herein described, is the following brief 
statement of the labor and expenditure that has been put into the levying tip 
and clearing of obstructions, for the benefit of inland navigation, along the 
majestic water-way that connects the sea-port with the great Western and 
Southwestern centers. The Governor and a State Board of Engineers are 
charged by the laws of Louisiana with the duty of executing a system for 
levee protection. This work is divided with the United States Engineers, 
Avho have control of the Congressional appropriations for the improvement 
of the Mississippi. From the close of the war to the 3-ear 18S4, there was 
expended by the State in levee building and repairs, $13,371,675.46. In the 
past two years, including the work done by parishes, individuals, corpora- 
tions, railroad companies, etc., over $3,cxx),ooo has been paid out for the 
same pvu-pose. The State built about 130 miles of levee in that time. Un- 
der the constitution the protection, presei-vation and repair of the levees, is 
committed to the police juries of the riparian parishes, and has ceased to 
be obligator}^ upon individual proprietors. The State law permits an ex- 
penditure of but $250,000 for repairs upon public works, a sum entirely in- 
adequate. The levees of the State are reported to be in better condition 
now than they have ever been before. 

The sum of $160,000 is the amount set apart by the Mississippi River 
Commission for levee building in Louisiana this season. 

The amount available for the dredging, removal of obstructions, and 
general improvement of the rivers and bayous of Louisiana is $107,059, but 
Major vStickney, of the U.^S. Coi-ps of Engineers, has asked for $178,856 
out of the funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885. 




TRADE AND COMNIERCB. 



TT7 HE activity, spirit and characteristics of the New Orleans merchants are 
I well displayed in the numerous Trade organizations that flourish by 
their patronage. The city's commercial interests have been protected 
and the public welfare intelligently promoted, by the services of these practical 
and utilitarian associations, as can readily be seen from the following account 
of them. Only the most important are mentioned, the many minor assemblies 
having only a local influence and bearing. 

THE NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXCHANGE. 

Current interest, inspired by the Exposition, taking in all matters relat- 
ing to the cotton traffic, would not be satisfied with a mere reference to that 
institution whose remarkable perfection of organization, illustrates, as much 
the sagacity of the New Orleans merchant as the continuous expansion of the 
trade in the great southern staple. The cotton interests are better protected 
at the port of New Orleans than elsewhere in the world, and this Exchange 
spends most liberally for that purpose. Next to Liverpool, the greatest 
business in cotton is done in this market, and through the medium of this 
association. 

The New Orleans Cotton Exchange was organized January 24th, 1S71 • 
" for the purpose of combining the scattered elements of the cotton trade so 
as to secure the enforcement of such rules and regulations as might be re- 
quired for the protection of all dealers in the staple, and to procure infor- 
mation respecting the condition of the traffic throughout the world. One of 
its greatest achievements was the establishment of a system of cotton super- 
vision, which put an effectual stop to the many frauds formerly perpetrated 
in the transportation of the staple, and now insures to the planter a just re- 
turn for every pound of cotton which he ships to the city. Another important 
reform was the inauguration of a system of levee inspection, for the protection 
of cotton on the landing in course of shipment abroad through officers of the 
Exchange, commissioned as special policemen, who are stationed on the 
landing and in every cotton-press. The arrangements for securing informa- 
tion regarding cotton are most comprehensive. Daily telegrams are posted 
giving the number of bales received, shipped, or sold, with the fluctuations 
in value, at every important point along the Gulf and the Atlantic, while 
correspondents are stationed at every point in the cotton belt, and the cotton 
movements in Europe and India are promptly reported. The extent of this 
bureau may be inferred from the fact that over $30,000 is expended in ob- 
taining and arranging the information." 

The magnificent structure erected by the Association in 1883, is the 
pride of the city. It cost, with its site, the corner of Gravier and Carondelet 




NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXCHANGE BUILDING. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 27 

streets, $375,000. It has been entirely paid for out of the income of the Ex- 
change, which reaches the sum of $125,000 per year. Certainly no building 
in the South compares with it, and few in other places. It is an architect- 
ural masterpiece, and is an enduring monument to its planner, architect 
Walters of Louisville, An engraving herein represents its exterior. The 
interior with its splendid frescoing is a marvel of artistic design and decora- 
tion that must be seen to be appreciated. 

The membership of the Exchange is limited to 500. It now has about 
450. The officers for 1885 are : 

President, Chas. E. Black; Vice-president, Pierre Poutz, Sr. ; Treasu- 
rer, A. Schreiber ; Superintendent and Secretary, H. G. Hester. 

Board of Directors — H. A. Frederic, Ad. Meyer, S. O. Thomas, Robt. 
Loeliger, H. F. C. Schaefer, Paul Schwarz, Jno. M. Parker, I. E. Glenny, 
A. Brittin, Lucas E. Moore, E. Puech, R. M. Walmsley. 

Chief Supervisor, T. O. Sully ; Chief Levee Inspector, J. H. McCartney. 

Ml". Henry G. Hester, the efficient secretary, is a native of New Orleans, 

and is an authority in commercial and financial matters. He was' formerly 

a writer for the press, but he has held this post since the foundation of the 

Exchange. 

THE NEW ORLEANS PRODUCE EXCHANGE. 
The 500 members of this important institution assemble for barter and 
trade at the premises on Arcade Alley, in the rear of Vonderbank's Hotel. 
It is fitting that the founder of this Exchange should have had, in his lifetime, 
the internal direction of its affairs. That gentleman, Mr. Walter M. Small- 
wood, lately deceased, originated the Exchange system for transactions in pro- 
duce in New Orleans in this wise : Some few years ago he was in the habit 
of calling off the market from a box on the street corners. After a while the 
crowd of merchants and dealers thus attracted blockaded all the neighborhood. 
It was then seen that a shelter should be provided for the general conve- 
nience, and Mr. Smallwood induced those interested to rent a store. In time 
the necessity of organizing became apparent, and at length the progress of 
events brought about the purchase of the Vonderbank Hotel property and 
the lots in the rear of it on Arcade Alley. Finally there was erected by the 
joint stock company of produce dealers forming the Exchange, the magnifi- 
cent building, furnished with%ll the modern improvements that characterize 
the Exchanges of the other large cities. The Produce Exchange has so pros- 
pei-ed as to be one of the wealthiest corporations in the State of Louisiana. 
Mr. Smallwood' s exertions therefore deserve the highest commendation. 
The officials now sei-ving the Exchange Association (18S5) are: 

President, N. D. Wallace ; Vice-president, Fred E. Ernst ; Treasurer, 

George E. Sears; Secretary, . 

Directors — Jules Vairin, T. J. McMillan, N. Burke, James Flower, 
E. P. Cottraux, W. T. Benedict, J. M. Frowenfeld. 

Mr. E. K. Converse, the retiring President, is one of the most esteemed 
merchants of the city. 



28 The Industries of New Orleans. 

THE LOUISIANA SUGAR EXCHANGE. 

Aside from the one at Greenock, vScotland, this is said to be the only 
exchisivelv Sugar Exchange in the world. ^"ery nearly the entire crop of 
Louisiana is here sold, buyer and seller, through its instrumentality, being 
brought together to their mutual advantage. The old system of selling on. 
the sugar landing necessarily involved much confusion and loss of time, which 
is now avoided by the methods in vogue at the exchange. The crop gi"ower 
and producer is benefitted by the change equally with the merchant. The 
premises occupied by this useful institution are convenient, comfortable and 
tasteful. The situation is north front, Bienville and Clay streets. The large 
assembly hall Is 112x60 feet; 54 feet to the sky light, and finished with 
Revaissance designs. The transactions in it are in sugar, molasses and Lou- 
isiana products of a like nature. 

The incorporation was perfected March 6th, 18S3. The officers are 
Richard Milliken, President; Isaac Delgado and John Dymond, Vice-Pi^esi- 
dents ; D. D. Colcock, Secretary. Under their intelligent and painstaking- 
dii'ection, the affairs of the Exchange are admirably managed, and the trade 
has been stimulated by the increased facilities furnished it. 

MEXICAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN EXCHANGE. 

Attention having been directed that way by newspaper articles on the 
subject, on October 2d, 1882, the oi^ganization of a Mexican Exchange was> 
effected, the objects and pui-poses of the corporation being declared to be "to 
stimulate trade with Mexico, Central America, South America and the West 
India Islands ; to promote the businessjnterests thereof, and to afford greater 
rights, privileges and facilities in the prosecution of such work; to acquire, 
presei-v'e and disseminate such information connected with the objects of the 
association as may be required." Mr. H. Dudley Coleman was the first 
President. The Exchange has prospered fairly well, although its member- 
ship fluctuates considerably. It has now on its roll about 160 of the leading 
tradesmen of this vicinity. The officers of the association now serving are : 

President, Pearl Wight ; Vice President, Joseph Bowling ; Treasurer, 
A. W. Hyatt; Secretary, Charles de Vaux ; Directors, T. R. Roach, M. B.. 
Muncy, A. Samuels, W. G. Wheeler, W. B. Schmidt, J. J. Mellon, S. M. 
Todd, Geo. H. Dunbar, G. W. Timbrell, M. F. Dunn,' T. DeP. Villasana,. 
Geo. Pillsbury. 

The annual meetings are held in October of each year. Non-resident 
merchants are entitled to honorary privileges only. The rooms of the Ex- 
change are at 120 Common street. 

MECHANICS, DEALERS, AND LUMBERMEN'S EXCHANGE. 

This association was organized in 18S1. Its rooms are at 1S7 Gravier 
street, adjoining the Cotton Exchange. Its charter explains its purpose to be 
he advancement of all mechanical and industrial interests in the City of New 
Orleans ; and in furtherance of these ends and the public utility, and advan- 



The Industries of New Orleans. 39 

tage consequent thereon, to provide and maintain an Exchange in the City of 
New Orleans, devoted to the requirements and wants of mechanics, dealers, 
lumbermen, and other pei^sons engaged in mechanical and industrial pursuits 
in this city ; to adjust controversies between members and individuals en- 
gaged in such dealings ; to establish just and equitable principles of trade 
and uniform usages, rules and regulations for the government of their trans- 
actions, and to establish and maintain standards of measures, weight, quality 
and classifications in reference to all materials or articles used or sold by 
them ; as also to obtain and disseminate information pertaining to Mechanical 
and Industrial pursuits and decrease the risks attendant upon such business. 
It now has 177 members. Following are its officers for the year 1885 : 
President, Jas. D. Edwards ; Vice-President, Frank H. West ; Treasu- 
rer, Paul Haller ; Secretary, T. Hasam, Jr. 

THE NEW ORLEANS STOCK EXCHANGE. 

The membership of this, the recognized authority with the banks and 
brokers for quotations of stocks and bonds in this market, is limited to seventy. 
More could easily be got, but the general sentiment of the association being 
for a thoi'oughly reliable institution, this number was fixed as the maximum. 
The Exchange was organized in October, 1875. Its Board room is at No. 
29 Carondelet sti'eet, close by the Cotton Exchange. It is officered as follows : 

President, Isidore Newman ; Vice-Presidents, E. Chassaniol, F. A. Lee ; 
Treasurer, J. O. Bigelow; Secretary, A. A. Brinsmade. 

The annual election takes place December loth of each year. 

NEW ORLEANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 

The organization of a Chamber of Commerce for New Orleans was ef- 
fected nearly fifty years ago. The commercial policy of this section has 
been shaped to a marked extent by the deliberations of this institution. Its 
rooms are at 48 Carondelet street. R. S. Howard is the Presiding officer, 
Wm. M. Bui-well Secretary. 

THE NEW ORLEANS CLEARING HOUSE. 

Isaac N. Maynard, the energetic and clever director of the Clearing 
House of New Orleans was the founder of it. It has now been ten years in 
operation, under his charge. In the beginning he met with dificulty in hai'- 
monizing the bankers so that the institution might be started. By his efforts 
the organization was finally brought about. Now all the banks but one are 
members of the association. Jas. H. Oglesby, of the Louisiana Bank, is the 
President; Sam'l H. Kennedy, of the State Nat. Bank, Vice-President, and 
I. N. Maynard, Jr., assists his father. The senior Maynard is an old bank- 
ing man, having been bred to the business, and sei-ved at all branches of it, 
from minor capacities to management. The system of clearing every day 
effectually guards against panic, and has long ago been thoroughly approved 
by the participants in its benefits and privileges. 



30 The Industries of New Orleans. 

THE NEW ORLEANS COTTON PRESS ASSOCIATION. 

This association was organized in 18S1 by the Cotton Press proprietors, 
for the better protection of the cotton interests. All of the Cotton Presses, 
of New Orleans are represented in the association. Uniform charges for 
the storage and compressing of cotton has been established, so that sufficient 
facilities for all purj^oses of the traffic can be constantly maintained. Move- 
ments of the staple have been materially accelerated by and under this sys- 
tem, and a inore satisfactory and business-like method of conducting affairs 
has resulted. The office of this Association is at No. 167 Gravier street. J. 
C. Denis is the President; E. K. Bryant, Vice-President; H. D. Hop- 
kins, Secretary and Treasurer. The principal Presses making up this Asso- 
ciation are hereinafter noticed at length (see index). 



TRANSPORTATION. 



TTJ HE commerce of a city depends in a great measure upon its transpor- 
I ^ tation facilities. New Orleans is now well favored in this respect. 
During the last three years it has had a railroad boom, and it is believed 
that the end has not yet been seen. There are now six trunk lines radiating 
from the Crescent City to regions that may not be approached by water. 
They are : 

The Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans, a portion of the Illinois Cen- 
tral system. 

The Louisiana and Texas, of the Southern Pacific system. 

The Louisville, New Orleans and Texas (Mississippi Valley), of the 
Chesapeake and Ohio, or Huntington system. 

The New Orleans and Mobile, a portion of the Louisville and Nashville 
system. 

The New Orleans and Northeastern, a poilion of the Erlanger system. 

The New Orleans Pacific, a portion of the Texas Pacific system, and 
the main outlet to deep water of the Gould Southwestern system. 

All the important roads of the South have extended their lines to New 
Orleans in order to have a terminus there. These six trunk lines now con- 
nect the city with all of the important centers, whose trade it should have. 
The Illinois Central gives New Orleans communication with Chicago, Cen- 
tral Mississippi, Western Tennessee and Kentucky, Iowa and Illinois. 

The Chesapeake and Ohio connects with all the country bordering the 
Mississippi river, with Memphis, Louisville and Norfolk. It runs through 
Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 31 

The Louisville and Nashville system extends througout the entire south, 
but is operated principally in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and 
Tennessee. 

The Erlanger roads connect New Orleans with Meridian, Bermingham, 
Chattanooga, Monroe, and Cincinnati. 

The Southern Pacific and Louisiana and Texas, running through Texas, 
New Mexico, Arizona, and California to San Francisco, traverses a new, 
boundless, and almost uncultivated field for commercial benefit. 

THE SAN FRANCISCO MERCHANTS 

are most anxious to have more intiinate relations with their brethren of New 
Orleans, and to get an avenue by which to reach with their wheat, wine, and 
other special products the old world markets. 

The Texas Pacific, running for the most part through Texas, connects 
with the Gould Missouri Pacific system. 

By means of the Illinois Central road, New Orleans is now in position 
to secure the cotton trade of Mississippi ; by the Louisville and Nashville the 
best part of the same trade of Alabama. By the Pensacola and Atlantic 
branch of the same road it should get the trade of southern Georgia and Flo- 
rida ; and that of Texas by the Southern and Texas Pacific. The grain 
fields of Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, and southwestern Missouri, the cattle ranches 
of the great South- West, the iron and coal districts of Alabama, the fruitful 
territory of southern California, the tropical and mining yields of Mexico, are 
now vs^ithin convenient reach. 

The Illinois Central road brought into New Orleans during the business 
year ending September ist, 288,992 tons of freight, and carried out 142,484 
tons. 

The Louisville and Nasville road brought in 214,334 tons ; out 126,234. 

The New Orleans and North- Western during the ten months of its ope- 
ration, November iSth to September ist, last, carried in 65,423 tons, out 
13,895 tons. 

Total for the three roads — in-freights 568,950 tons ; outw^ard 282,613 
tons. 

The Texas Pacific is in a fair way to control for New Orleans all the 
trade of Northern Texas. 

The Southern Pacific (Louisiana and Texas) is prepai'ing for a great 
increase of its through traffic with the Pacific coast. 

Huntington is building a road to connect his Southern Pacific with Baton 
Rouge. There is prospect of a route to Denver, and a possibility of one to 
run along the west bank of the Mississippi into Southern Arkansas. 

With all these advantages, the business of New Orleans is 

BOUND TO AUGMENT. 

As germane to this subject, the ideas unfolded by leading commercial gentle- 
men of this city for the enlightenment otf the Government commission tha 
recently visited here, seem to have some application. They said: 



32 The Industries of New Orleans, 



" The extension of our railroads into Mexico has, although several of 
the principal lines are still incomplete, already demonstrated the immense in- 
fluence they are destined to exert on the future of that republic and the en- 
largement of our commercial relations with its people. When the main line 
of the Mexican National Railroad (Palmer-Sulli\'an) shall have been com- 
pleted tlie distance from New Lands in the Rio Grande to the City of Mexico 
will be S50 miles, which, added to 750 miles from New Orleans to Laredo, 
will place this city at 1600 miles by rail from the capital. This same com- 
pany also intends to build a line from Galveston direct to Laredo, which will 
be 200 miles shorter than that now in operation, thus reducing the distance 
fi"om New Orleans to the city of Mexico to 1400 miles. Every effort should 
be made both by the government and citizens of the United States to en- 
courage and promote the progress of railroad development and construction 
in the countries of Central and South America, until we have secured rapid 
transit for mails, passengers, and the lighter and more valuable kinds of 
merchandise between all the nations of our Western World. The result of 
continuous railroad connection between North and South America would be 
to give to the United States the control of a commerce which will become 
more valuable than that of India to England, without the disadvantage of 
having to traverse one-half of the globe to reach it. 

STEAMERS AND SAILING VESSELS. 

The subjoined information is extracted from the Annual Review, pub- 
lished by the Tinies-Democrat newspaper, at the close of the last commer- 
cial year : 

During the winter season two lines of vessels, steamers, run to Vera 
Cruz, stopping at Bagdad, Tuxpan and Tampico. There are also sailing 
vessels frequently running to Progreso and other Mexican ports. 

A regular line of steamers runs to Havana, Key West and Cedar Keys. 
There are, besides these, nine other lines, embracing ninety-three vessels 
(steamers), running between this port and Europe, which stop at various 
West Indian and Mexican ports en route to this cit}-, or on their way home, 
thus giving easy and frequent communication with those places. The West 
India and Pacific Line (British) stop at nearly all the important W^est In- 
dian ports; the Mississippi and Dominion Line (British), at Havana; the 
North German Lloyd (German), also at Havana; the Harrison Line (Brit- 
ish), among the West Indies, and the ports of Central and South America ; 
another line at Porto Rico and Cuba ; find the others in similar manner at 
various ports on the Gulf of the Caribbean. 

OUT OF THIS PORT. 

Besides these a line of vessels (the Macheca Line) between Belize (Brit- 
ish Honduras) and New Orleans, makes three trips a month ; a line trading 
regularly to Port Livingston, on the eastern coast of Spanish Honduras, and 
two other lines, the Oteri and C. A. Fish's steamers, connect Truxillo and 
the Bay Islands with this port. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



33 



A new line of steamers has just been established between New Orleans 
and Nicaragua, placing this city in regular monthly communication with the 
three Caribbean ports of Gracias a Dios, Blewfields and San Juan del 
Norte. 

C. A. Fish's steamers connect New Orleans with Port Limon bi-weekly, 
and thence with the interior by rail. 

Three lines, Macheca's, Oteri's and Fish's, run between this city and 
Jamacia during the winter season, and one to Port-au-Prince, Hayti. 

With the other ports of the Caribbean there is very little communication. 
A line of steamers was recently established to Laguayra, Venezuela, but had 
to be discontinued on account of the oppressive quarantine. With Venezu- 
•ela we have no other communication except an occasional vessel. 

The important inter-state commerce of the States on the Gulf — Texas, 
Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, should not be forgotten. Key West, the 
farthest point, is only 620 miles distant from here ; less than half the distance 
lay rail ; Tampa, 520, and Cedar Keys 460 miles. To all these towns, as 
w^ell as to the ports of Texas, regular lines of vessels ply with a good trade, 
which is growing and increasing. 

The Cromwell line to New York, R. B. Post & Son's Florida line, the 
Macheca and Oteri lines, and other impoi'tant routes ai"e noticed at greater 
length elsewhere in this volume. 

INLAND NAVIGATION. 

The thoroughness of the Mississippi river steamboat service is proverbial. 
Although passenger inovements are now mostly by the speedier rail routes, 
the elegance, comfort, and complete facilities of the river packets, still at- 
tracts a fair share of patronage. The freight traffic is increasing and the 
steamboat trade is not less prosperous than of old. Apropos to this inatter, it 
may be mentioned that the watei-ways of Louisiana are estimated to be equal 
to 4,000 miles navigable length. The figures that follow show amongst 
•other statistics, the number of craft belonging to New Orleans. The prin- 
cipal lines now doing business and the agencies therefor, with other infoi*- 
mation of the sort, inay be found in that part of this book devoted to the re- 
presentative houses, reference to the index showing the page. 

Vessels Belonging to the Port of New Orleans, July 31, 1884. 



C/ass 


JVumbef 


Gross 


Class 


Number 


Gross 


of Vessels. 


of Same. 


To7inage. 


of Vessels. 


of 


same^ 


Ton 71 age. 


Steam — 






Sail- 








Ocean (Wood) 


6 


2,353 


Ocean (Wood) 




87 


5^257 


" Iron 


20 


28,420 


River 




239 


2,340 


River (Wood) 


105 


18,709 


Total Sail 




326 


7,597 


" Iron 


12 


1,721 


" Vessels 




469 


58,802 


Total Steam 


117 


5i'205 


" 1S82 


'-3 


462 


59,008 








" iSSr 


_3 


536 


64,683 



34 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



ARRIVALS OF THE PAST THREE YEARS COMPARED. 



AMERICAN VESSELS 
FROM FOREIGN PORTS. 



COASTWISE 
VESSELS. 



With Cargo | In Ballast 



No. I Tons. I No. | Tons. [ N. | Tons. 



FOREIGN VESSELS 
FROM FOREIGN PORTS. 



With Cargo 



In Ballast 



No. I Tons. I No. | Tons. 



TOTAL 
TONNAGE. 



No. I Tons. 



18S3-S4 

1882 -8s 

I8SI-82 



307 I 3 '7.340 I 192 I 60,275 
27S I 311,833 I 197 I 72,066 
263 I 361,509 I 208 I 120,863 



37 
33 
II 


17,518 
14,506 
8,310 


3i« 
322 
271 


326,823 
348,351 
334,900 


262 1 
322 1 
144 1 


272,828 
316,224 
172,498 



III6 
1152 

897 



998,784 

1,062,880 
998,079 



CLEARANCES FOR THE SAME PERIOD. 





COASTWISE 
VESSELS. 


AMERICAN VESSEL 
FOR FOREIGN PORTS. 


FOREIGN VESSELS 
FOR FOREIGN PORTS. 


TOTAL 




With Cargo | In Ballast 


With Cargo | In Ballast. 






No. 1 Tons. 


No. 1 Tons, i N. 1 Tons. 


No. 1 Tons. 1 No. 1 Tons. 


No. 1 Tons. 


18^3-84 
1SS2-S3 
1881-82 


3S0 

269 

326 


350,212 
289,846 
405,338 


157 
179 
174 


54,788 
64,465 
101,457 


25 

12 
22 


6,990 
3,383 
6,533 


583 
6S6 

422 


601,858 

704,304 
522,618 


5 
4 
9 


3,323 
1,142 
2,911 


1,147 1 1,057,171 

1,153 1 1,063,267 

953 1 1,038,857 



EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. 

The following data show that the imports of 1SS3-S4 were $193,57^ 
more than during the twelve months preceding, and that at the same time 
the exports from New Orleans decreased $14,180,837: 



Principal Imports. 

ARTICLES FREE OF DUTY. QUANTITY. VALUE. 

Foreign Coin $ 223,670 

Miscellaneous chemicals, lbs 369,838 87,282 

Chloride of lime, lbs -. 9556^2 13^022 

Mineral Waters, gals 114^236 26,896 

Vanilla beans, lbs 3'425 ^967^ 

Miscellaneous drugs 145429 

Coffee, lbs 29,843,839 2,885,724 

Farinaceous substances 29,202 

Fertilizers, tons , 1,255 22,470 

Bananas 3S5'922 

Cocoanuts 99'4"5 

Other fruits Z^,oio 

Hides 35'2i7 

India rubber, etc. , lbs i99»542 99'7^^ 

Unmanufactured wood 132,822 

SUBJECT TO DUTY. 

Brushes 7'794 

Buttons 3'742 

Cement, bbls 6,016 7,913 

Carbonate soda, lbs 5,673,191 82,552 

Caustic soda, lbs ^A97^9^ 110,401 

Medicines i7'3" 

Clocks 7'78c> 

Coal, tons 2,842 8,044 

Cotton cloths, square yards 832,102 55'°59 

Laces and trimmings 186,954 



The Industries of New Orleans. 35 

subject to duty. quantity. value. 

Knit goods 55,483; 

Thread, lbs 22,844 ^5^5^ 

Manufactured cotton 101,33^ 

Earthenware 145,734 

Ornamental Earthenware 32,31 1 

China, etc 17,433. 

Dolls and toys 12,663, 

Perfumeries 14,296' 

Pipes 12,352^ 

Fancy articles 9i^S^ 

Anchovies and sardines 156,85^ 

Sisal grass, tons 874 75,634 

Bagging 108,549. 

Linen 128,435 

Twine, lbs 20,368 20,291 

Manufactured hemp, flax and jute 56,821 

Lemons ?>97-i^57 

Oranges 297,363 

Pi'unes, lbs 446,039 ' 24,31a 

Raisms, lbs 255,477 ^3'7^5 

Presei^ved fruit 29,948 

Other fruit 32,068 

Bottles 59, 169 

Pig iron, tons 3)77^ 92,074 

Steel rails, tons 597^ 20,900- 

Cotton ties, lbs . . /. 18,190,045 269,867 

Tin plates, lbs 2,141,863 84,251 

Tin, lbs 6,304,795 330,628 

Iron rods, lbs 2,176,541 70,641 

Wire, lbs. . . ., 1,084,071 23,795. 

Malt liquors gals 128,265 118,453 

Marble H^S^7 

Musical insti'uments 30,833 

Olive oil, gals . . ._ 46,720 58,341 

Chee,se, lbs 169,604 35,502- 

Rice, lbs " 850,039 18,338 

Salt, lbs 50,100,338 74)641 

Brandy, gals 19,603 40,738 

Sugar, 13 Dutch stan'd, lbs 4,331,601 1,296,607 

Sugar, above 13 D. S 1,841,155 67,154 

Leaf tobacco, lbs 334,963 168,748 

Cigars, lbs 61,497 198,662 

Champagne, doz. bottles 9i'^77 ^ 10,985 

Wine in casks, gals 233,470 103,303 

Wine in bottles, dozs 39,983 88,698 

Woolen cloth, lbs 37,840 39,860' 

Alf other dutiable articles 99,854. 



36 



Tke Industries of New Orleans. 



Total Imoorts. 



1SS3-84. 



Brought 

in 

American 

Vessels. 



August . . . 
September 
October. . . 
November . 
December. 
January. . . 
Februar\-. . 
March . ". . . 

April 

May 

June 

July 



Total, 1SS3-S4, 
Total. 1SS3-S3, 
Total, 18S1-S3. 



$ 31 
46 

32 

175 
121 

91 
136 

365 
466 

1S3 

14S 

Si 



Brought 

in 
Foreign 
Vessels. 



Total \'alue 

of Imports 

of 

Merchandise. 



.485 
,462 

.278 

'539 
,446 

,614 

,180 

475 
949 
■535 
114 
684 



$1,880,761 

I. 370.131 
2,340,039 



$ 252,802 
459,141 

555^553 
905,630 

S77'346 
1,090,316 

637.543 
1,300,839 

884,416 

719,003 

867,079 

366,037 



$ 284,287 
505,663 

5S7'S3i 
1,081,159 

998,793 
1,181,930 

773^723 
1,566,904 

1,358,994 
903 , 50S 

1,015,190 
355.611 



$8,715,785 
8,048,885 

9.513.813 



$10,612,592 

9,419,016 

11,993,852 



Of this total amount of imports, commodities valued at $5, 
subject to duty, and $4,948,628 free of duty. 

The trade in tropic fruits is constantly expanding. Oteri, 
Macheca's are the principal importers. 

PRINCIPAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS. 

ARTICLES. AMOUNT. 

Bread and buiscuit, lbs 137,364 

Com, bushels 5.9631255 

Corn meal, bbls 54 

Oats, bushels 3748S 

Rye, bushels 264,569 

Wheat, bushels . 647, 162 

Wheat flour, bbls 32,462 

Candles, lbs ... 15 ,898 

Manutactured cotton, colored, yds 2,202,224 

Manufactured cotton, uncolored, yds 56,699 

Hides and skins 

Hops 571,996 

Machinery 

Other manufactured iron and steel 

Malt liquors, dozen bottles 29,805 

Oil cake and meal, lbs 152,836,797 

Cotloa seed oil, gals ' 2,388,303 

Tallow, lbs 1,018,334 

Bacon, lbs 83,588 

JJ'^'"-'*. "^« 57.355 

Fork, ll)s 654,97 1 

Lard, lbs 173,600 



663,997 came 
Fish and the 



VALUE. 

9,811 

3,718,303 

1 98 

1,903 
173,706 

709,893 
164,388 

2,236 

139.464 

9'727 

30^294 

128,519 
1 1 ,096 

33.738 
54,042 

1,689,298 

1,029,807 

68,933 
6,948 

7.975 
40,792 

16,703 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



3/ 



ARTICLES. 



lbs. 



Butter, lbs . 
Cheese, lbs 
Cotton seed. 

Soap 

Brown sugar, lbs . , 
Leaf tolbaccoj lbs. 

Lumber, feet 4,06 

Staves 

Logs and timber 

Door sash and blinds 

All other inanufactured articles 



AMOUNT. 


VALUE. 


48,408 


10,674 


41,709 


3,778 


406,116 


3,138' 


96,468 


4,324 


68,889 


4,309 


0,338,379 


954,189. 


4,061,000 


63,443. 




695,518. 




53,785 




33,901 




27,431 



TOTAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS. 



1883-84. 



Carried in 
American 
Vessels. 



Carried in 
Foi"eign 

Vessels. 



Total Value 
of Exports of 

Domestic 
Merchandise. 



August 

September . . . 

October 

November . . , 
Deceinber. . . . 

January 

February 

March 

April 

May 

June 

July 

Total, 1883-84 
Total, 1883-83 
Total, 1881-83 



46,192 

■ 89,534 

170,990 

602,493 

449,361 

301,703 

135,187 

545,341 

93,217 

48,964 

39,830 

128,682 



2,641,393 

2,949,035 
5,941,561 



$ 



1,179,333 

2,140,830 

7,473,308 

11,298,284 

10,738,431 

12,474,470 

12,278,336 

8,086,333 

5,936,831 

2,527,749 
3,596,588 

1,703,693 



$ 78,433,063 
93,186,951 
62,238,770 



$ 



1,235,134 

2,230,454 

7,644,398 

11,900,776 

11,176,872 

13,776,173 

12,413,513 
8,631,673, 

6,030,048 

2,577,713. 
3,626,438 

1,831,374 



81,064,455 
95,330,966 
68,190,431 



FLOUR AND GRAIN: 

The average yearly receipts of flour at New Orleans are 700,000 bbls., 
although in 1858 the figure rose to 1,500,000 bbls., and in 1869-70 still high- 
er. Of the 700,000 bbls. about 50,000 bbls. a month are required for the 
local, interior and gulf trade. The difference goes to foreign ports. Mex- 
ico, Central America, Cuba and South America are making increased de- 
mands at this port for their necessities. Flour ranged in price during the 
year from $4. 13 J to $5.00 for family, and $4.40 to 5.90 for fancy brands. 

Three years' grain exports compare as follows : 



1883-84 18^3-83 


1881-83 


Corn ^,4.7^,034. 7. 161. 168 


639,342 
3,474,581 


Wheat 1,015,459 5,529,847 



38 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



OCEAN FREIGHTS. 

Cotton freights during the last season were considerably lower than the 
season before. The highest rates were about the middle of November. In 
grain freights little was done compared with other seasons, and rates ruled 
low; 6s 6d per quarter was the highes' rate obtained, and 3s per quarter the 
lowest. Freights on oil cake, staves, and other produce were about the same 
as cotton and grain freights. Reduced port charges and increased facilities 
for handlnig cargoes, have made New Orleans as cheap as any other Ameri- 
can poit. The prevailing freight rates during the twelve months ending wiih 
last September were : 

Cotton to Liverpool, steam 11-64 to 7-i6d, sail 1-4 to 7-i6d ; cotton to 
Havre, steam 3-S to 15-16C. sail 1-2 to 3-4C ; cotton to Bremen, steam 5-16 
to 15-32C, sail 3-8 to 13-16C; cotton to Continent, steam 7-16 to ic, sail 3-8 
to 15-16C; cotton to New York, steam 25 to 40c per 100 pounds; cotton to 
Boston, Providence, Fall River, Philadelphia, etc. via New York, steam 38 
to 55c per 100 pounds. Bulk gi-ain to Liverpool, per bushel, steam 4 to 8d, 

sail d ; bulk grain to Havre, per quarter, steam 6s to , sail — ; bulk 

grain to Continent, per quarter, ste&m 5 to 6s, sail s. Oilcake to Liver- 
pool, per ton, steam 15 to 30s, sail ; Sugar to New York, per hog:5head 

steam ^3 to 5. Molasses to New York, per barrel, steam $1 to 2. Rice to 



New York, per barrel, steam 50 to 75c. 




UNITED states MINT. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



39 



TRAFFIC WITH THE INTERIOR. 

Imports from September 1 to August 31, for Three Years, by 
River, Lake and Rail. 



articles. 



Apples, bbls 

Bacon, boxes 

Hams, tcs 

Bagging, pes 

Beans, bbls 

Butter, pkgs 

Bran, sacks 

Beef, bbls 

Cotton seed, sks — — 

Corn meal, bbls 

Corn, sacks 

Corn in bulk, bushels . . . 

Cheese, boxes 

Candles, boxes 

Coal, bushels 

Dry salt meat, lbs 

Eggs, bbls 

Eggs, boxes 

Flour, bbls 

Hides 

Hay, bales 

Lard, tcs 

Lard, kegs 

Molasses, bbls 

Moss, bales 

Oats, sacks 

Onions, bbls 

Oils, bbls 

Oil, boxes 

Oil cake, sacks 

Potatoes bbls 

Pork, bbls 

Rye, bashels 

Rice, bbls , 

Rosin, bbls 

Soap, boxes , 

Spirits of turpentine, bbls , 

Staves 

Sugar, hhds 

Sugar, bbls 

■Starch, boxes 

Shingles , 

Tallow, bbls , 

Tobacco, hhds 

Tobacco, pkgs , 

Wool, bales, etc , 

Whisky, bbls , 

Wheat, bushels 



1883-84. 



43,690 
15,683 

7.551 
40,361 

10,791 

72,704 

143,813 
11,098 

1,288,127 
110,537 
563,667 

5,677,128 

47,403 
30,960 

4,569,768 

37,961,155 
3,800 

38,464 

711,390 

231,010 

173,410 

25,904 

50,772 

269,943 

76,200 

607,806 

32,958 
140,600 

4,976 
330,825 
308,999 
50,726 
268,592 
248,703 

55 '243 
105,120 

7,0-3 

4,933,000 

106,916 

291,230 

76,219 

19,369,000 

1,109 

7,068 

53,262 

82,578 

40,830 

1,311,703 



'2-83. 



54,597 

17,288 

10,073 

51,300 

9,617 

68,721 

136,775 
24,023 

3,419,171 

134,956 

778,944 

7,580,334 
46,308 
34,741 

9,880,033 
31,304,533 

759 
37,480 

796,148 

263,955 

177,455 

■ 23,431 

43,904 
338,841 

16,177 
742,653 

33,571 

13 1,003 

10,137 

351,086 

224,55 
46,30 

15,944 
220,134 

40,381 

92,393 
6,356 

6,868,374 

156,671 

171,671 

139,355 

13,349,000 

1,777 
7,580 

53,965 

83,261 

40,948 

6,180,938 



;i-82. 



39,476 
13,308 

9,499 

43,383 

IO,3l6 

50,903 

131,309 

7,253 

1,723,683 

148,341 

277,337 
3,235,183 

49,175 

- 30,908 

9,166,117 

28,989,345 

3,682 

19,876 

899,111 

240,743 
135,129 

16,369 
33,866 

193,707 

9,595 
597,366 

32,413 
62,483 

3,641 
203,979 

i8S,88S 

38,459 
766 

303,158 

27,584 
73,380 

3,477 

5,707,873 

85,350 

70,907 

59,232 

9,085,000 

577 

3,107 

49,038 

54,384 

30,841 

3,376,607 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



41 



Valuation of Domestic Produce Received at New Orleans 
During the Year Ending August 31, 1884. 



ARTICLES. 



Apples, boxes and barrels 

Bacon, boxes 

Bacon ham?, tcs 

^^SS^PSi pieces. . . . 

Beans, barre.s 

Butter, packages . 

Bran, sacks 

Beef, barrels 

Cotton, bales 

Cotton seed, sacks 

Corn meal, barrels • . 

Corn, shelled, sacks ■ . 

Corn, bulk, bushels 

Cheese, boxes 

Candles, boxes 

Coal, Western, barrels 

Cow peas, sacks 

Dry salt meats, lbs 

Eggs, boxes 

Flour, barrels 

Hides 

Hay, bales 

Lard, tcs 

Lard, kegs 

Molasses, gallons 

Oats, sacks 

Onions, bari"els 

Oil cake, sacks 

Potatoes, barrels 

Pork, barrels 

Rice, barrels 

Rosin, barrels 

Soap, boxes 

Spirits of turpentine, barrels 

Staves, M 

Sugar hogsheads 

Starch, boxes 

Tallow, barrels 

Tobacco, leaf, hogsheads 

Tobacco, chew, packages 

Wool, bags 

Whisky, barrels 

Wheat, bushels 

Other various articles estimated at. 



Amount. 



Average 
Price. 



43,690 

15,582 

7.571 
40,361 

10,791 
73.704 

143.813 
1 1 ,098 

1,709,187 

1,288,127 

110,327 

562,667 

5,677,128 

47.403 
30,980 

4,569,766 

56,400 

37.961.155 

: 38.464 

711,390 

231,010 

173,410 

25,904 

50,772 

15,277,316 

607,806 

32,958 
330,635 

318,999 

50,7 

248,703 

55,243 
105,120 

7,025 

4.932 

221,515 

76,219 

1,109 

7,068 

53.262 

82,57s 

40,820 

1,211,702 



2 00 
45 00 
45 00 

11 50 

10 00 
17 00 

I 50 

12 00 

49 00 
60 

75 

56 
50 
20 

30 

1 40 

8 

17 00 

5 15 
4 00 

3 00 
30 00 

4 50 
30 
00 
00 

25 

75 
00 

11 00 

2 00 
2 '00 

18 ^00 
140 ^00 

60 OD 
I 30 
20 00 
120 00 
15 00 
40 00 

50 00 
I 07 



$ 



87,280 
701,190 
340,695 
464,151 
167,910 
1,252,968 
215,719 

133.176 
83,050,156 

772,876 

303,399 
984.667 

3. 179. 192 

■213,718 

161,096 

1.370,929 
78,960 

3,036,892 
619,888 

3.663,658 
924,040 
520,230 
777,120 
228,474 

4.583.595 
1,215,612 

65,916 

413,281 

558,248 

811,616 

2,845,733 

110,486 

210,240 

126,450 

690,480 

13,290,900 

99,085 

22,180 

848,100 

798,930 

3.303.120 

2,041,000 

1,296,521 

25,000,000 

TOTAL VALUE. 

Tot^l in 1883-84 $161,269,037 Total in 1880-81 $197,758,175 

Total in 1882-83 200,018,645 Total in 1879-80 179,771,600 

Total in 1881-82 159,516,729 Total in 1878-79 127,006,939 



2 
2 
I 
I 
16 



Value. 



BANKING AND FINANCE. 



The New Orleans banking houses are exceptionally well managed, and 
ai'e fully equal to the accomodation of this section. They are separately 
noticed elsewhere in this book. The figures that follow give some idea of 
the extent and character of their operations. 



TWELVE YEARS CLEARINGS. 



$ 



Year ending June i — 

1873 

1874 

1875 

1876 

1877 

1878 

1879* 

1880 

1881 

1882 

1883 

1884 

* Epidemic year. 
The business of 1884 compared with the previous year's, shows a de- 
crease of $439,294 in the clearings, and $3,089,043 in the balances. 

LOWEST AND HIGHEST DEPOSITS, LOANS AND LEGAL TENDERS. 



Clearings. 
501,716,339 
476,335,855 
406,839,493 
436,366,166 
414,537,870 
438,750,803 
372,651,750 
433,011,637 
475^125,567 
501,476,773 
514,506,891 
514,067,597 



Balances^ 

58,933,605 
53,751,430 

45^293,425 
47'937,794 
47,296,575 
46,341,330- 
44,468,480 

46,157^057 
46,519,865 

50,937,380 

53,821,910 

50,733,884 





Deposits. 




Date. 


Lowest. 


Date. 


Highest, 


October 37, 1883 
November 13, 1883 
July 4, 18S4 


$ 10,800,000 

13,300,000 

9,800.000 


January 37, 1883 
March 2, 1883 
February 32, 1884 


$ 15,400,000 
16,000,000 
16,000,000 



Loans. 


Date. Lowest. 


Date. 


Highest. 


July 38, 1882 
July 5, 1883 
July 18, 1884 


$ 14,000,000 
14,700,000 
13,500,000 


February 17, 18S3 
December 38, 1883 
March 17, 1884 


$ 15,600,000 
17,200,000' 
17,300,000 


Legal Tenders. 


Date. 


Lowest. 


Date. 


Highest. 


October 13, 1882 
October 36, 1883 
June 4, 1884 


$ 2,535,000 
3,700,000 
3,100,000 


January 30, 1882 
January 19, 1883 
January 8, 18S4 


$ 4,750,000 
4,700,000 
4,900,000 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



43 



The course of the market is indicated by the following tab e, which 
sho^vs the extremes monthly : 



18S3-84. 



September 
Octobei" . . 
November 
December 
January . . 
February . 

March 

April 

May 

June 

July 

August . . 
1882-S3... 
18S1-S2... 



Except'l 
paper. 



8 to - 

7 to i: 

8 to i: 



Ai. 



8 
8 
8 
8 
9 
9 
8 
8 
8 
8 
8 
8 
8 to 15 
8 to 12 



Collatr'l 
loans. 

6 to 8 

7 to 8 
7 to 8 
7 to 8 
6 to 8 
6 to 7 
6 to 8 
6 to 8 

6 to 8 

7 to 8 

8 to — 
8 to — 
6 to 10 
6 to 10 



A I mort- 
gages. 

8 to 10 
8 to 10 
8 to 10 
8 to 10 



to 8 

to 8 

to 8 

to 8 

to 8 

to 8 

to 8 

to 10 

to 8 



IvKADING MANUKACTURKS. 



It must be admitted that in proportion to population, New Orleans 
does not take precedence as a manufacturing center. The necessities 
of a great section have nevertheless to be supplied from this city, 
and this, with the employments founded upon the special resources of the 
state, make up a most respectable showing. The sugar and shipping 
industries rely to a very great extent on the accomodations furnished 
at this point, and the mechanical trades that work in iron, are 
represented by several institutions of note, among them the works of Mr. 
Dudley Coleman, the Whitney Company and the Leed's Foundry. Manu- 
factures of tobacco and the preparation of rice for market, cut an impor- 
tant figure in the general trade reports. Movements of cotton furnish busi- 
ness for numerous pickeries, and the milling of oil and seed products is a 
source of considerable wealth to the community. The introduction of 
prime Western beer, having created a taste for that beverage, local enter- 
prises are now vigorously and most successfully competing with these rivals 
from abroad. The Southern and Louisiana Brewing Companies are both 
doing remarkably well. The former has been selling about 30,000 barrels 
of lager per year, and the latter has a bright future before it. The eight 
New Orleans breweries employ about 150 men, and have a capital of per- 
haps $350,000 invested. They make from 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of 
malt liquor a year. 

The capital employed in the clothing trade of New Orleans approxi- 
mates $1,000,000. Sales in the last year (including importations) aggre- 
gated $3,000,000. There are about thirty factories in the neighborhood of 



44 The Industries of New Orleans. 

the city. They employ altogether about 2,000 people, some of the larger 
establishments having 300 employes. 

Lumber and its manufactures also figure lai-gely in the market reports. 
Exportations are increasing, the Spanish-American markets, especially mak- 
ing increased demand. 

The chai'acteristic commerce of the city ci'eates a fine market for the 
cooperage business. The body of this work contains account of the main 
enterprises here instanced. 

COTTON SEED PRODUCTS. 

Until after the war the cotton seed had no commercial value whatever, 
and was a most inconvenient surplus to dispose of. The total value of the 
products obtained by milling this material in the South is now reckoned at 
$8,000,000, or three per cent, of the whole proceeds of cotton culture. Since 
the first successful experiments, a marvelous advance has been made in the 
manufacture. In 1S67 there were but seven mills in the country, three of them 
in New Orleans ; in 1 8 70 there were twenty-six; in 1880, forty-seven ; and 
now, at all the important cotton centers, mills have been located, until there 
are loS in all. The amount of seed annually crushed is estimated at 420,000 
tons, or ten per cent, of the entire quantity produced. If all the seed raised 
was crushed it is believed that there would be realized from it $80,000,000 to 
$100,000,000 annually. 

The cotton seed yields cotton seed cake, meal, oil, ash, soap stuff and 
fertilizers, and the residue after all the processes, is used as fuel for the mills. 
No part of it is waste. The cotton plant averages about three and a half 
pounds of seed to one pound of lint ; from a ton of seed thirty-five gallons 
of crude oil may be expressed, leaving 32 pounds of cotton and 750 pounds 
of cake. Cotton seed oil, refined, is used for making fine soaps and as a 
substitute for, or adulterant of, olive oil. As a matter of fact, pure olive 
oil is 

A SCARCE ARTICLE OF COMMERCE. 

The refuse after the refining process is called soap-stock. It is some- 
times used also to make illuminating gas. Glycerine is extracted from the 

oil three and a half pounds of it from a gallon of crude oil. The cake is 

what is left after the oil is extracted. It is principally used for feeding stock 
and as a fertilizer, being highly esteemed for the latter purpose by sugar 
planters. If ground, the cake is known as meal, in which condition it is 
much preferred abroad for fodder. The hulls furnish fuel for the mills. 
Their ash makes fine lye. It is said that hulls would make fine paper stock, 
and that the French make a fine dye from the seed. Liverpool, Havana, 
New York and Key West take large quantities of the soap stock. It may be 
seen that the economic value of this material can hardly be over-estimated. 
It is certain that 160,000,000 gallons of oil could be made from the seed 
grown in the South. The oil mills have been a rich bonanza to their owners, 



The Industries of New Orleans. 45. 

and the result of continuous prosperity is, some great enterprises in that line 
located 

IN AND ABOUT NEW ORLEANS. 

Various causes, however, combined to make the last season a dull one, 
but a more favorable outlook was reported for this season at its opening, 
because the stock on hand was low. Oil was low-priced on account of the 
coinpetition of lard and cheap greases in the last year, but large sales of cake 
and meal counterbalanced these losses. Germany and the Continent con- 
sumed greater quantities than usual. The sugar planters, distressed by over- 
flows and hard tiines, did not make the usual demand on the market, but on 
the whole it may be said that this, as proven by past experience in this local- 
ity, is one of the very best paying industries in the South. The subjoined 
figures show better the extent of the trade of 1883-84. 

RECEIPTS BY RIVER AND RAIL. 

Oil, bbls 66,409 

Cake, sacks 381,536 

Meal, bags 429,984 

Soap stock, bbls I5I24 

Cotton seed, sacks 1,327,874 

FOREIGN EXPORTS. 

Oil, bbls 56,528 

Cake, sacks 43,391 

Meal, bags 83,184 

Soap stock, bbls 75528 

Soap, bbls 1)388 

COASTWISE EXPORTS. 

Oil, bbls 54)492 

Cake, sacks , 473,456 

Meal, bags .^ 447,868 

Soap stock, bbls 5 ) 1 34 

Soap, bbls 492 

SUGAR AND MOLASSES. 

The largest crop of sugar that has been gathered and prepared for dis- 
tribution in Louisiana since the war, was last year's. The number of sugar 
houses in operation was 998, of which 840 were steam mills. The total pro- 
duction of sugar was 143,855 tons, and of molasses 15,377,316 gallons. 
Over half the sugar was the refined article. 

There are about twenty-five parishes in Louisiana engaged in sugar 
planting, the area under cultivation in cane being 172,420 acres. Fully 250,- 
000 people are employed in this industry. The land, machinery and im- 
plements in use are estimated as worth $90,000,000. 

Owing to political and other extraordinary causes the market has been 
much depressed. Mexican and Cuban reciprocity proposals and the tariff 
agitation have had a noticeable effect on prices. 



46 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



Genuine molasses as an article of direct consumption is fast going out 
of use. Improved sugar machinery reduces both the quality and quantity of 
the molasses. Prices of this product ranged low and exports were lighter 
than last year. The receipts of 1883-4 were 269,943 bbls»; the exports 207,- 
773 bbls, nearly a third less than for the twelve months preceding, although 
the sugar crojo was 43 per cent, greater. A Sugar Exchange, the funda- 
mental principal of which is that the producer shall have a stated representa- 
tion in the Board of Directors, so as to make the commercial and agricultu- 
ral interests in the trade identical, has been organized during the year. The 
planters and dealers are interesting themselves in the political events that 
affect the profits of their enterprises. They also have a protective organiza- 
tion. 

SUGAR crops of LOUISIANA. 



Years. 


Hogsheads. 


Years. 


Hogsheads. 


Years. 


Hogsheads. 


Year 


3. Hogsheads. 


1823.. 


30,000 


1840. . 


87,000 


1855- • 


231,427 


1870 


. 144,881 


1824. . 


32,000 


1841.. 


90,000 


1856.. 


73,296 


11871 


128,461 


1825.. 


30,000 


1842. . 


140,000 


1857.. 


279,607 


.1872 


108,520 


1826.. 


45,000 


1843.. 


100,000 


1858.. 


362,296 


1873 


89,498 


1827.. 


71,000 


1844.. 


200,000 


1859.. 


221,840 


1874 


. 116,867 


1828.. 


88.000 


1845.. 


186,000 


i860. . 


228,753 


1875 


• 144,146 


1829. . 


68,000 


1846.. 


140,000 


1861.. 


459,410 


1876 


• 169,331 


1832.. 


70,000 


1847- • 


240,000 


1863.. 


76,801 


1877 


• 127,753 


i«33-- 


75,000 


1848.. 


220,000 


1864.. 


10,387 


11878 


. 213,281 


1834.. 


100,000 


1849.. 


247,000 


1S65.. 


18,070 


,1879 


169,972 


1835.. 


30,000 


1850. . 


21 1,201 


1866.. 


41,000 


1880 


• 218,314 


1836.. 


70,000 


1851 . . 


236,547 


1S67.. 


37,647 


188 1 


. 122,982 


1837.. 


65,000 


1852.. 


321,934 


1868.. 


84,256 


1882 


241,220 


1838.. 


70,090 


1853.. 


449,324 


1869. . 


87,090 


1883 


• 221,515 


1839.. 


115,000 


1854.. 


346,735 











THE RICE CROPS AND MILLS. 

During the last decade, the cultivation and milling of rice has become 
the main support of a large population in Louisiana. New Orleans has 
eleven rice mills, with a capacity for cleaning 250,000 barrels per annum. 
There are about 900 rice plantations in the State. Fully 50,00 people are 
concerned in the cultivation of the staple. The amount invested in all the 
industries connected with the rice trade is estimated as $6,000,000. The 
crop of the la^t season was 500,000 barrels. Prices during the year were 
unsatit-factory. Prime quality throughout the season averaged 5I cents, 
with choice a shade higher. 



Year. 


Barrels. 


Pounds. 


Year. 


Barrels. 


Pounds. 


1876 

1877 

1878 

1879 


161,690 37,189,620 

152,524 35'08o,520 

159,010 36,592,310 

90,124 20,728,520 


1880 

18S1 

1882 

1883 


266,658 
240,966 

187,217 


16,330,340 

61, 331^134 

55,422,180 

45,059,960 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



47 



THE TOBACCO TRADE. 

Sales of leaf tobacco for export at New Orleans are now merely nomi- 
nal, purchases for that purpose being made inland and shipped through. 
Exportations via the New Orleans route are considerable, however, because 
the leaf does not deteriorate as when sent via Northern ports. The receipts 
of the past year were 7,684 hhds., which, with 1,207 lihds. already on hand, 
made a total of 8,893 hhds. Of this the German port of Bremen took 6,8 12 
hhds., and France 164 hhds. The remainder went to the trade. 

Business in the line of manufactured tobacco was not brisk during last 
year, but is improving. There are in the city eight manufacturers of fine-cut 
chewing, smoking and snuff tobaccos, supplying an average yearly consump- 
tion of 1,750,000 pounds, valued at $600,000, and employing about 500 
hands. The climate is exceedingly favorable to the production of first-class 
stock, and the productions of this market are highly appreciated on that ac- 
covmt. 




FRENCH MARKET. — (Coui-tesy of J. C. Waldo.) 



THE MUNICIPALITY. 



IT ^hardly seems to come within the scope of a work like this to treat of 
matters not essentially commercial. Nevertheless the fact that elemosy- 
nary and charitable institutions are liberally sustained by the public, is 
assuredly evidence of progress as much as the statistics of trade transactions. 
The legacies of McDonough and others have helped to perfect in New Or- 
leans a common school system unexcelled elsewhere in America. The hos- 
pitals and asylums are generously supported by state and municipal as well as 
private benefactions. The sentiment and public policy has always been to 
enlarge the educational facilities of the coinmonwealth and the higher institu- 
tions of learning are thoroughly and completely equipped for useful servce. 
Literature, Art and Science receive suflEicient attention and encouragement to 
show that culture and refinement are not lacking in the community. The 
very recreations and mode of life of the inhabitants is proof of the civilizing 
influences that prevail. No people in the world fare better, or take more 
comfort in life than the residents of Nev^ Orleans. 

The city government is in sound financial condition. "Is bonded 
liability," said Mayor j ro tern. Kirk}: atrlck, a short time ago, " is in grad- 
ual process of extinction." The total bonded and floating debt of the city 
is in exact figures $18,427,185.12. The indebtedness of the State (Sept. 
ist, 1884) is $13,234,061.20. The state leg'slature at its last session passed 
an act privileging the holders of any city bond at their option to change a 
coupon into a registered bond. The registration guards against the dan- 
ger of the paper being burned, lost or stolen. The New Orleans bonds and 
the U. S. bonds are the only registered bonds m the country. At the last 
State election an amendment to the debt ordinance of the year 1879 was 
adopted, repealing the 3 per cent for fifteen years' clause, and fixing the 
interest at 4 per cent on the state debt from Jan.i, 1885. There is no other 
instance on record where a State has voluntarily increased the rate of inter- 
est upon its debt. Litigation concerning the unpaid city coupons has 
ceased. Interest liabilities are now met as they mature. The municipal 
bonds are approximating par value on 'Change. The current expenses of 
the city are being paid with the receipts. By observing the one-twelfth 
principle, (monthly balances) no further indebtedness can be incurred. The 
City of New Orleans was incorporated 1804: re-organized in 1852, 1870 and 
1882. The municipal election is in April of every fourth year. Its officers 
are : 

Mayor, E. V. Guillotte ; Treasurer, I. N. Patton ; Commissioner of 
Public Works, John Fitzpatrick ; Comptroller, J. N. Hardy; Commissioner 
of Police and Public Buildings, Pat Mealey ; City Attorney, Walter H. 
Rogers ; City Surveyor, D. M. Brosnan. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 4^ 

BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS. 

There is no surer nor more healthful indication o£ the expansion and 
prosperity of a great city than is to be found in the march of improvement 
therein. The adornment of the public places, the architectural display, and 
the construction of great public works, are evidences of the general activity 
and advancement. According to the Times Democrat which has prepared 
statistics of the building operations for the year ending Sept. ist last, there 
had been during the twelve months preceding, a busy season, with every 
prospect that affairs would so continue. The general thrift is the more ap- 
parent in the lavish expenditure for the construction and repair of edifices 
devoted to charitable and elemosynary purposes, such as the hospitals and 
asylums, which are supported mainly by popular contribution. This is no- 
ticeable in the appended list in which the con ractor's own figures are given 
and also their arrangement of them. 

Building and other improvements by the Qvieen and Crescent, 

Mississippi Valley, Jackson and Morgan's line railways. ... $ 500,000 

Street paving, Sewering, etc 282,500 

Produce Exchange, Pickwick Club and Denegre buildings 235,000 

Permanent improvements by street railways 200,000 

Episcopal Orphan Asylum, Leland University and Louisiana 

Cooperage and Manufacturing Company 178,000 

Boston Club, Eustis building, cotton sheds 150,000 

Government Hospital and repairs 150,000 

Sugar Exchange, etc 100, o6i 

House of Good Shepherd and McConnieo residence 119,500 

Charity Hospital, Hotel Dieu and Tuoro Inf. repairs 110,000 

McDonough Schools 100,000 

Planters-Crescent Oil M;ll, Algiers 100,000 

Minor churches and miscellaneous 75,000 

The Exposition structures 1,500,000 

Total $3,800,061 

The list is necessarily incomplete and irregular, but there is enough of it 
to show how brisk the building trade has been, although it fell behind '82-3. 
The great railroad companies have contributed a generous share of their earn- 
ings toward increasing the transportation facilities of the place. The Queen 
and Crescent line expended $50,000 in fitting up freight houses and a depot 
at the property purchased by it of the Levee Cotton Press Company. The 
Mississippi Valley road paid $500,000 for the Jackson Press property, and it 
is said will spend $200,000 more for improvements thereon. The Jackson 
railroad company and the Texas Pacific are also making costly additions and 
repairs at their respective termini. The Morgan Company has been to an 
immense outlay in building new car-shops, steamers, etc., at Algiers. 

By way of beautifying the thoroughfares, and doing honor to the great 
ones once of earth but passed away, statuary representing General Robert 

E. Lee and Margaret Haughery, the friend of the helpless and the orphaned,, 

have been placed in position during the year (1883-4). 



5o The Industries of New Orleans. 

THE NEW ORLEANS NEWSPAPERS. 

The i^oteiicy of the daily press is uow so well appreciated that to enlarge 
upon that threadbare topic would be a mere waste of words. The New 
Orleans newspapers admirably reflect the life, spirit and sentiment of the 
community in which they are published, and their management is thoroughly 
en rapport with popular feeling hereabouts as to the province of journalism. 
If anywhere in America the line is judiciously drawn between news and that 
vicious scandal-mongering which is deprecatingly termed "sensationalism," 
and yet is made a distinctive policy in other places, it is in the Cresent City. 
The dignified, and yet spirited conduct of the principal New Orleans dailies, 
might well be emulated by these news-scavengers. The leading newspapers 
.are: La Abcille de Nouvelle Orleans (The Bee) the Picayune^ the Times- 
Democrat , the States and Item^ the last two evening publications. 

LA ABEILLE DE NOUVELLE ORLEANS. 

T/ie jBcc^ the oldest journal of the southwest, issued its first number 
• Sept. ist, 1827. At first it was published only in the French language, but 
in a few months an English side was added to the paper, and subsequently a 
•Spanish department was supplemented. For many years this journal wielded 
great influence, the ability and enterpri.se displayed at its inception speedily 
obtaining recognition for it. Changes in the proprietorship and momentous 
political events varied its policy, so that it was successively Democratic, 
Whig, and, for a brief period before the war, Republican; but the opening 
of hostilities enlisted it in support of the Southern cause. During the occu- 
pation c-f the city by Butler, its plant was seized, and for a short time publi- 
cation was suspended. After the war, like other organs of public opinion in 
this section, it espoused the side of the Democratic party. In 1872, it was 
determined to continue it as a journal of the French language exclusively, 
and this course has since been followed. Owing to the chai^acter of the 
Louisiana population, it finds in this direction a sufficient field. Alexander 
Bullitt, who retired from management upon the defeat of Henry Clay for 
the Presidency, Dr. Samuel Harby, the English, and Numa Dufour, French 
editor, were prominent figures of this community in their day. Messrs. 
Oscar Donnet and Edgar Dufour are the present proprietors. 

THE NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE. 

The first issue of this superior newspaper bears date of Jan. 25th, 1837. 
The brilliant and adventuresome George Wilkins Kendall, a co-laborer 
with Horace Greeley, and F. A. Lumsden of North Carolina, also a man of 
fine attainments, were its founders. Their venture was a success from the 
start. Kendall was afterward distinguished as one of the foremost pioneers 
of the State of Texas, participating there in the early trials of the settlers in 
that Commonwealth, and undergoing persecution at the hands of the then 
hostile Mexicans. He died in 1867. Lumsden was drowned in a disaster 
in Lake Michigan in September of i860. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 51 

A. M. Holbrook was, for many years following 1839, the business man- 
ager. Under his direction, the paper prospered wonderfully. Alexander 
C. Bullitt, afterward the conductor of the chief organ of the Whig party, 
the Washington Republic^ held an interest for a time after 1844. Samuel 
F. Wilson was editorial manager from 1850 for twenty years, and until his 
death. Barn-well Rhett was a writer for it. A stock company bought the 
paper in 1872, and in 1875, Mrs. E. J. Holbrook (Pearl Rivers) became 
the proprietress. Mr Geoi^ge Nicholson, the business manager, was ad- 
mitted to a partnership with her, and the difficulties growing out of the war, 
and subsequent hard times, were gradually overcome. Mrs Holbrook and 
Mr. Nicholson were married in 1S78, the firm name now being Nicholson 
& Co. The Picayune is regai'ded as entirely reliable, and faithful to the 
high calling which it represents. 

THE TIMES-DEMOCRAT. 

The remarkable success of this newspaper since the consolidation indi- 
cated by its title, is undoubtedly due to the administrative ability of its man- 
ager, the distinguished Major E. A. Burke, State Treasui-er of Louisiana, 
and Director-General of the Exposition. The Times-De?tiocrat first appear- 
ed December 4th, 1881. It is a combination of the business of two news- 
papers, the Times, established in 1863, and the Democrat, started in 1875- 
Major Burke was managing editor of the latter paper. Through his effoils 
the Times, which was for sale, was absorbed by the Democrat, a joint stock 
company, in which Mrs. Sue A. Burke had a controlling interest, acquiring 
the property. Under Major Burke's vigoi'ovxs direction the patronage of the 
newspaper has so expanded that it is now i^ated with the great journals of 
America. The positions of trust and honor to which Major Burke has been 
chosen illustrate the influence of this powerful organ, as much as the esteem 
in which he is personally held. This newspaper is not behind any in the 
land in a single essential particular, and is especially noticeable for the lead 
it takes upon all questions of great moment in this community, such as the 
Exposition and the South American trade revival. Commercial reports are 
made a special feature by the Times-Democrat and much of the data in this 
work comes from its columns. 

OTHER DAILY ISSUES. 

Major H. J. Hearsey, a writer with a national reputation, runs that 
sprightly evening daily, the States. It has met with public favor, and has a 
great sale on Sundays. 

The Daily City Iteiii is edited and published by M. F. Bigne3^ It has 
a handsome patronage and is much approved for its independence. In poli- 
tics it opposes all its competitors, the Republican party having its most loyal 
support. 

The Deutsche Zeitiing dispenses the happenings of the day to a Ger- 
man constituencv in the language of the Fatherland. Jacob Hassinger, its 
editor, is a journalist of more than local reputation. 



52 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



The Price-Current^ established so far back as 1822, has recently been 
made a commercial daily. It is an acknowledged authority in all this section 
upon matters within its field. Louis J. Bright & Co. are its proprietors. 

The Sugar Boxvl'is, a well conducted weekly Trade Journal. 

The Mascot^ best appreciated for the pungency of its paragraphs, and 
the suggcstiveness of its caricatures, is a weekly conducted by the Mascot 
Publishing Company. 

The Pro-pagateur Catholiqtie^ a journal whose name explains its pur- 
pose, is published weekly in the French language, by A. Lutton & Co. 

The Morning Star is a Catholic weekly which also makes a feature of 
secular matter for family reading. It has therefore a wide circulation. 

The Jewish South is the organ of the residents of Hebrew faith. 

The South Western Christian Advocate and the Christian Advocate^ 
are respectively the journals of the Methddist denomination, and the Meth- 
odist Church South. 




CITY HALL. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



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LOUISIANA'S RESOURCES. 

As expressing concisely just what is the fact, the remarks of a commer- 
cial writer of prominence on the subject conveyed by this headline are 
quoted : 

" The State possesses many rare advantages,^ which, if generally known 
and understood, would induce an influx of capital and immigration to this 
section, unequaled by that in any other State in the Union. 

" Louisiana covers 45,000 square miles of prairie, alluvial and marsh 
lands, unsurpassed in richness and fertility of soil. These lands are capa- 
ble of producing nearly every description of plant and fruit adapted to a 
peculiarly rich soil and a semi-tropical climate. And even more, for there 
are many varieties of fruits native to colder latitudes, which thrive success- 
fully in our sunny clime. 

" Vast regions of virgin forests are to be-found waiting for the blade and 
the saw of enterprising lumbermen. These beautiful timber lands are beck- 
oning with their perennial foliage the lumber Industry from the frigid North, 
w^ith its hardships and wasting forests, to the clime of gen'al skies and wealth 
-of uncut timber. 

" Cotton, sugar and rice are the staple agricultural products. The par- 
ishes bordering on Red River are adapted to their cultivation. Corn, oats 
and rye are grown successfully in that region. There are two varieties of 
rice, one of which can be grown in the marsh lands and is known as the 
* lowland ' rice, and the ' upland,' which is grown on high land." 

Lands can be obtained cheaply in the choicest situations. 






RICE, BORN & CO., 77 to Si Camp Street, 

I lard-Mare, Agricultural Implonctits, Etc. 
(See opposite p;u e.) 



RKPRKSKNTATPIVK HOUSKS. 



SKKTCHES OK IvEADlKO N/LKTROPOI.ITAM 

NIERCHANTS, NIANUKACXUR^ 

ERS, ETC. 



T T(5^E shall devote our concluding chapter to a review of the history of a 
WW few of our leading mercantile and manufacturing houses whose aggre- 
gate capital and enterprise have so greatly aided in the development 
of the commercial and trade industries of New Orleans, and in the advance- 
ment and perpetuation of her wealth and civilization. Only houses whose 
reputations are above suspicion have been mentioned, and if the list be incom- 
plete, it is not because of any bias upon the part of the editor or publishers. 
But comparatively few of the large retail establishments of the city, whose 
interests are principally of a local character, have a place in this volume, be- 
cause the " Industries of New Orleans," is intended for general circulation 
in the South and Southwest, and has a greater scope than their patronage 
would justify. 

RICE, BORN & CO., 

Dealers in Hardware, Tools, Agricultural Implements, Cooking and;Heating Utensils, etc., 77 to Si 

Camp street. 

A work of this nature could not well neglect describing this long established and 
influential firm without laying itself liable to the charge of favoritism. Rice Bros., now 
Rice, Born & Co., established the house so long ago as 1S4S. The members of the firm 
now are Henry Rice, Jacob Born and Augustus Rice. The situation chosen by this firm 
for its permanent business location is admirable, the premises being the magnificent 
flve-story building fronting 100 feet on Camp street by 200 feet deep — numbered 77 to 
81. From seventy to ninety employes is the average number engaged in sales and ship- 
ments, the patronage of the house extending all over the Southern States and well into 
Mexico and Central America. Rice, Born & Co., are the sole agents for the Gulf States 
of: Washburn & Moen's Glidden Patent Steel Barb Wire; New York Enamel Paint 
Co.'s Mixed Paints (prepared ready for use) ; Howe's Improved Scales; Excelsior Lawn 
Mowers; Ansonia Brass and Copper Co.; Black Diamond Files; Walter's Patent Tin 
Shingles; The Celebrated Charter Oak and Cotton Plant Stoves and Ranges; Crescent 
City and Belle of Orleans Cooking Stoves; W. G. Fischer's " Grand Active " Wrought 
Ii-on Ranges. 

Their Miscellaneous Stores include : Builder's Hardware ; Agricultural Implements ; 
Cutlery; Plantation Supplies; Cooking and Heating Stoves; Tinner's Stock, and Car- 
penter's, Tinner's, Cooper's and Engineer's Tools. The New York office of this house 
is at 97, Chambers street. Through it, they have direct connection with the chief man- 
ufacturers of the United States. The conduct of this house displays a most aggressive 
and thoroughly American commercial policy. Travelers in its service may be found 
negotiating for trade at the extreme points that patronize New Orleans, as well as nearer 
at home. The house has been one of the most energetic in pushing its wav into the 
Spanish-American markets, and has already been rewarded for its pioneering service* 
with a most satisfactory return for its outlay. 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 



RICHARDSON & MAY. 

Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants : 38 and 40 Peidido street. 

The work which is undertaken in these pages would be an incomplete record of the 
Industries of New Orleans, if no mention was made of the truly great and powerful 
house, whose ascendency is recognized all over the South, and whose name is known 
and honored throughout all the markets of the world. Necessarily, an account of the 
house would include some description of the master-spirits that founded and have di- 
rected it. Accordingly a few facts concerning each of the partners are presented. 

With the modesty characteristic of a great mind, the first subject of this sketch has 
been disinclined to a personal relation of his affairs. Accuracy however, being desira- 
ble, points have been obtained from a most reliable source, and the facts are really his 
own relation, although it was made long since. In his statements regarding himself 
and his transactions. Col. Richardson has been careful to credit much to the assistance 
ot his associates in business. As he remarks, " T have been favored with most excellent 
partners." To the people of New Orleans and vicinity. Col. Edmund Richardson's 
commanding figure is well known. The story of his life is nearly, if not quite as strik- 
ing 

He was oorn close to the line of Virginia and North Carlina and in the latter state, 
June 2S, 181S. His early schooling and opportunities were limited, but leisure mo- 
ments in after life were eagerly improved by him, as appears from his correspondence. 
His most excellent mother, the widow of a country merchant and planter, being in 
straightened circumstances and with seven children to rear, placed him in a store at 
Danville, Virginia, when he was but fourteen, at a salary of $30 per year. With her 
assistance, he saved the whole of this meager recompense for his labors. By the 
third year he had made himself so serviceable, that his wages were $600 per year. 

In iS36he was under medical treatment for pleurisy and was advised to go South. 
He made the trip to Clinton, Mississippi, on horseback, where he was employed for a 
time at $75 per month — a munificent salary for those days — thus showing that his in- 
dustry and aptitude were remarkable for one so young. He was in business for himself 
for atime, but his first real venture was in 1840, when he received from his mother's 
estate $2,800, in money, and some negroes. By 184S, his mercantile operations had 
brought him $30,000; more than a fair fortune for the times. In May of that year he 
married Miss Patton, a sister of Ex-Governor Robt.Patton, of Alabama, and was for the 
next two years engaged in planting. In 1850 he was interested in commercial business 
at Jackson, Brandon, Canton, Morton and Newton, Mississippi, and in 1852 he em- 
barked in the cotton commission business in New Orleans, still retaining his plantation 
and country stores, however, until i860, when he sold them. 

That portion of his remarkable career which immediately follows, as displaying 
the persistency and capacity which distinguish him, is best described in this extract from 
a biography of him published abroad (Latham, Alexander & Co.'s). 

"When the war broke out, his house, Thornhill & Co. of New Orleans, w-as in- 
volved in large transactions, having acceptances out to the amount of $500,000; its 
assets amounted to between eight and nine hundred thousand dollars, but, of course, 
most of these were lost. He had, besides, some individual liabilities, and was working 
five plantations, most of thein on the Mississippi River. The negroes on these, 4S0 in 
number, were set free, and the teams, stock and outfits, mostly lost or destroyed. The 
close of hostilities found Col. Richardson seriously embarrassed financially, and with 
his plantations and property in a dilapidated condition. As he himself says, he would 
gladlv have given all he owned to be released from debt; but he felt that it would be 
useless to remain inactive, and to nurse vain regrets. In the Fall of 1865, he attempted 
to reorganize his places for planting, and with 500 bales of cotton saved from the general 
wreck reopened his commission house in New Orleans. He sold his plantations for 
good prices in cash, and his cotton enabled him to control his acceptances by paying 
half cash and extending the balance for twelve months. He then controlled the paper 
of his customers and went earnestly and vigorously to work, collecting from some, com- 
promising with others, settling in some way with all whose paper he held. The travel- 
ing which Col. Richardson did in these and the next succeeding years was marvelous, 
his activitv was ceaseless; wherever his presence could be of service to his interests or 
those of his firm, he managed to be. The whole re-establishing of his fortune was an 
exhibition of energy and masterful appliance of the means at cominand, such as had 
scarcely ever before been witnessed, even under similar exceptiimal circumstances." 

By 1S6S, he had sufficient financial resources to lease the Mississippi Penitentiary. 
Fortune favored him, and he extended his planting interests. In 1868 he dissolved con- 
nection with Mr. Thornhill and formed a partnership which has lasted ever since, with 



The Industries of New Orleans. 57 

Mr. A. H. May, a gentleman of high enterprise, and possessed of capital and ability. 
This consolidation of their interests was of advantage to both, and the history of one 
thenceforward is almost a narrative of the affairs of the other. In 1872, Col. Richard- 
son purchased and reconstructed the Wesson Cotton Mills in Mississippi. Under the 
clever superintendence of Mr. Wm. Oliver, this institution has since been continuously 
prosperous. The magnificent display made at the Atlanta Exposition by this concern 
will not soon be forgotten. Col. Richardson was one of the vice-presidents of that pro- 
ject. He was a commissioner to the Paris World's Fair in 1878, and is President of the 
management of the great Exposition now in progress at New Orleans. He was selected 
as much for his executive talents, as because his subscriptions to the funds were liberal 
in the extreme. To the advancement of the grand Southern project he has contributed 
time, advice, and money without stint, and this triumph of sectional progress and pride, 
will be a sufficient gi-atification for him. He has been director, member, and repre- 
senative for many other concerns, and in them all he has made the office he has held 
one of honor and labor rather than of emolument. 

Such are his characteristics and for such is he to be honored by his fellow citizens. 
To touch lightly of his private affairs, for that is not the province of this work, it may 
be said that his domestic life has been as tranquil as his mercantile and public exper- 
ience has been vai-ied. His wife, four sons and a daughter, makeup his household. 
His sons are business men of prominence for their years, one having a responsible post 
in his employ. 

Col. Richardson is by far the largest planter in the world. He has 25,000 acres under 
cultivation, most of it in cotton. He is the largest cotton manufacturer in the South, and 
with Mr. May, conducts the greatest cotton house in the world. As a capitalist he ranks the 
first in his section. Hisminor investments are too numerous for detail. And with all his 
immense fortune and financial strength, it cannot be said of him that he has used his 
power to the disadvantage or the injury of his countrymen. The stigma that too often 
attaches to the designation, capitalist, does not rest upon him. His practice has been 
to improve the condition of his operatives and employes, and they enjoy many unusual 
advantages that give them the chance to elevate themselves. This is the highest and 
noblest of all charity. 

A. H. May, no less notable in the world of Commerce and Finance than the celebrity 
just paragraphed, is so diffident concerning his own accomplishments and merits as to be 
absolutely not interviewable upon that topic. Suffice it however to say of him, that he is 
distinctively a man of affairs and administrative abilities. He has lived here about forty 
years, has always been deep in the cotton traffic, and has investments in enterprises liter- 
ally too numerous to mention, with banks, insurance companies and corporations of 
every order. Both he and Col. Richardson are authority in the Exchange, and the house 
is a prime factor in all calculations affecting movements, rates, futures, and other cot- 
ton transactions, by whomsoever attempted. 

D. H. HOLMES. 

Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods : E. D. Willett and A, Hoffman Managers, 155 Canal, 15 Bourbon, 133 
Customhouse and 16 Dauphine streets. 

Far surpassing, in the breadth and volume of its transactions, in the novel arrange- 
inent of its immense premises, in its complete and original system of operations, in the 
number and discipline of its employes — by every characteristic of commercial splen- 
dor — the ordinary establishments of the city of New Orleans, the house which bears the 
name of this great American Dry Goods King, rivals the famous establishments that 
grace the great European Capitals. Many of the striking innovations on established 
business customs and methods that were adopted by the master mind of this great enter- 
prise, have, since his demonstration of their practicability, been eagerly seized upon by 
lesser concerns, and so come into general practice, thus illustrating the spirit that a single 
live and aspiring individual can infuse into a whole community of tradesmen. Mr. Holmes 
has lived in New Orleans, barring those intervals when the immense business of the 
house keeps him abroad, for some forty-five years, but although these enforced absences 
are frequent, he leaves behind at the helm a guiding spirit, impressed from long asso- 
ciation with his ideas, the genial and accomplished general manager, Mr. A. Hoffman, 
who has been thirty years with the house, which was first established in 1842. Previous to 
this time Mr. Holmes had been bred to the trade. He had been with the wholesale 
house of Thomas Medley & Co., and although his resources were somewhat limited as 
compared with their present volume, he was in pretty fair circumstances and had favorable 
and auspicious prospects when he opened in Chartres street forty-three years since. 
In 1849 the development and expansion of the trade forced a removal to enlarged quar- 



58 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



ters and demanded increased facilities. These were found at the present location, grad- 
ual improvements since bringing the establishment to its existing state of efficiency. 

This immense institution, as laid down upon the map of the city, has four front- 
ages, one on each of the streets mentioned in the headlines to this article. Its interior 
arrangement is thus made remarkabl}' convenient. Its general plan is that of a com- 
plete cross, the four stores meeting in the center of the square. 

The Canal, Dauphine and Bourbon street entrances are for customers. The 
Customhouse exit is reserved for the receipt and shipment of goods. The 
general stock of staple fabrics, such as table linens and house furnishing goods, is dis- 
played in the store, fronting on Canal street. Here too, a department is resened 
exclusively for dress goods, wherein the finest tissues that are manufactured are 
stored. Goods suitable for summer or winter wear are laid in in due season 
and are here exhibited on an extensive scale. The Bourbon street store is de- 
voted to the sale of ladies underwear, foreign, and home manufactured articles,, 
and notions, including ribbons, trimmings, gloves, French and English perfumeries, 
fans, parasols, and a thousand other items, too many and varied to enumerate. The 
stores on the Dauphin street side, are, in all probability, the finest ever fitted up for 
the purposes to which they are put. Special pains have been taken to light them and 
they have been embellished so as to make them particularly attractive. The Costum- 
ing" and Millinery Departments are here located, and it is safe to say that the like of 
them cannot be found elsewhere. Every detail has been attended to that could add to 
their completeness. The Cloak Department is a model one, roomy, airy and bright ; 
the costumers' rooms and millinery parlors contain the finest fabrics that French skill 
and ingenuity can devise. The other divisions of the trade are provided with like fa- 
cilities. 

The silk department alone does a greater business than many of the retail dry 
goods houses do, all told. The dress fitting and Sewing rooms employ about sixty hands 
constantly, that number rising to one hundred and more in the busy seasons. The 
most expensive goods are in the lace department. Strangers to the city will find a 
world of interest in passing through this vast but complete establishment and in exam- 
ining its exhibit at the World's Exposition, where ample space was secured for the- dis- 
play of the magnificent fabrics specially manufactured for this house, and for that oc- 
casion. The patronage of the house includes the wealthiest and best people of the 
South. During the Carnival season. Eastern, Northern and Western travelers throng 
its spacious salesrooms in evident delight at the novelties there displayed. The estab- 
lishment carries a stock of goods worth $250,000. Its annual sales reach five times that 
sum. 

Mr. Holmes is now but rarely in New Orleans. As has been intimated, he attends 
to the buying for his house, and this occupies the greater part of his time. He has pur- 
chasing offices at 33 Leonard street. New York City, and in Paris at 11 Rue d' Haute- 
ville. He buys his foreign goods direct from the manufacturer, thus enabling himself 
to share the middleman's margin with his customers. 

This great house, and its greater proprietor are the pride of the city. The estab- 
lishment is so far above and beyond local rivalry as to have only the friendship of the 
trade of this section. It is the recognized house. 

F. A. LAMBERT. 

Importer and Wholesale Dealer in French Brandy , Wines, Foreign and Domestic Liquors, Cordials^ 

etc., 50 and 52 Magazine street. 

One of the first houses to import regularly foreign wines and liquors in this locality 
was the house herein described. It was founded as long ago as the year 1837, a time to 
which few men's memories carry them back, by X. Lambert, who began the develop- 
ment of what is now one of the distinguished houses of the South as it is carried on by 
his successor. There is hardly a corner of the states lying in these latitudes, or of our 
sister Republics, with which the house has not connection in the way of trade. It is the 
sole agent at New Orleans for Udolpho Wolfe's Ameliorated Holland Gin, a liquor that has 
a wider celebrity than any other beverage in the wide world. The agency for J. DuCas- 
taing, and for Mrs. L. Vigneau's Bordeaux Wines, is also held by Mr. Lambert. The 
premises occupied by the house are necessarily large because the rectifying and com- 
pounding of liquors is carried on, in the prosecution of which branch of its business the 
house is acknowledged to be the most scientifically expert of any in this part of the 
country. The house has ample capital and is entirely deserving the confidence and 
continued patronage of the trade. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



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S. B. STEERS. 

The Steers-Morse Compress and the Batture Cotton Press (Girod and Front Streets) : Office, 41 Caron- 

de'.et Street. 

Almost indispensable to any account of 
the industries of the Crescent Citj, is the 
name which is recorded at the beginning 
of these lines. Although Mr. Steers resides 
half the year in Cooperstown, New York, en- 
joj'ing a well-earned leisure, his interests are 
inseparably linked with the fortunes of the 
city which has established his credit and hon- 
or. To dispense with biography, for Mr. 
Steers is sufficiently well known by his good 
works to all the Southern communities, and 
to confine this sketch to the industrial mat- 
ters of which the book more particularly 
treats, it may be remarked that some of his 
later enterprises deserve more than a passing 
attention. Mr. Steers' New-Morse Press is 
the most powerful ever constructed. To quote 
from the Times-Democrat newspaper: 

"The Morse Cotton Compressor has load- 
ed the largest cargoes, per ton measurement, 
ever taken at American ports. The whole 
number of Cotton Compressors in this coun- 
try is 120 (of eight different kinds) ; forty- 
nine of these are Moi'se, all introduced in the 
last six years. In the last three years twenty- 
one Morse have been built and only four of all 
other kinds altogether. Ozwr one-half of the 
Amcricati cotto7i crop is notv compressed by ■ 
Morse Compressors, saving Pour to Five Million Dollars Anfiually in freight charges. 
Several of those erected six years ago have now compressed 600,000 to Soo,ooo bales each, 
without breakage or appreciable wear. Not a single breakage or defect has ever occuri-ed 
in any one of the Morse Compressors, built of Cold Blast Charcoal Iron. It has made 
the business of cotton compressing the surest and most profitable in the South." 

There. is no embodiment of mechanical power on earth that is put to a severer strain 
and trial than is a Cotton Compressor. The old Tyler style can no longer be operated 
with the economy made necessary by the close commercial transactions of the day. A 
Savannah authority, some two years ago, claimed that the old style hydraulic 
presses performed greater and better service than those in use in New Orleans 
(the Morse). There is no question but that hydi^aulic pressses are serviceable ma- 
chines, but in point of durability, running expense, power and general economy, 
they are no more to be compared to a Morse Press than an ant is to a draft 
horse. The Morse Press is now built with steam cylinder as large as 90 inches 
diameter, with 8-foot stroke of piston, and to give a pressure on the bale of 500,000 
pounds. Six seasons of operation show no perceptible wear or defect in any now in 
use. To illustrate the practical and very general excellence of these machines, the 
patentee has one of the largest size and most recent improvements in operation at the 
Exposition, to which project, by the way, he has contributed most generously. 

These presses are manufactured at St. Louis and Reading, Penn. Mr. Steers has 
confided his business interests at this point to the direction of Mr. Fred Eyle, a gentle- 
man amply qualified to attend to them. A growing demand from abroad for the Morse 
Press, and from Mexico in particular, is now being satisfied. The Morse Press, in 
competition with all the world, and against the opposition of the foremost English 
manufacturers, was awarded the distinction of the silver medal at the Calcutta Interna- 
tional Exhibition. When the cost to make the change is taken into account, the most 
manifest evidence of its superiority is that of the number of Morse Presses that have 
been substituted for the old st^de apparatus throughout the South since its introduction 
in 1876. The saving and enlarged facilities, however, make up for the outlay. 

Mr. Steers is also proprietor of the new Batture Cotton Press, first opened for busi- 
ness on November 20th, last, and situated at the corner of South Front and Girod 
streets. A new 80 inch press, just built by Mr. Steers is a part of the plant of this estab- 
lishment. A hundred bales an hour can be compressed by it. The press and sheds 



6o " The Industries of New Orleans. 

cover half a block of ground, and have ample storage room. This press will compete 
for the patronage of all this section. It now does a forwarding business principally, 
hauling the staple up from the Levee, compressing it, and shipping it to all parts of the 
world. Mr. Steers' membership in the Cotton Exchange, will be an additional assist- 
ance to the transactions of this complete institution. Mr. Thos. R. Richardson, who 
is thoroughly versed in all the processes of a press, is the manager of affairs here. His 
telephone is numbered 347. 

Mr. Steers' investments and affairs have *;hus been briefly sketched. He is certainly 
one of the most eminent men of this mechanical era. 

THE GERMANIA INSURANCE AND SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY. 

Fire, Marine and River Insurance, Safely Vault for the Deposit of Valuables, etc, : Office 51 Camp street. 

The Germania Insurance Company's great safety vault is the only institution of the 
sort in N'ew Orleans. Since its opening it has acquired and still retains the public fa- 
vor as a depository of absolute seciuitj- for funds, papers and valuables of e\ery sort 
against burglary, fire, accident, and other mishaps. It should be remembered that banks 
disclaim responsibility for cash-boxes or securities left with them for safe keeping; 
that the liability of a hotel keeper for money or securities left in his charge by guests is 
limited; that ordinary fire insurance companies do not insure against losses by fire of 
money, books of account or securities. 

The building containing the burglar-proof vault of the Germania Company is a mas- 
sive structure, especially prepared for its purpose. The vault is not only safe in the 
broadest acceptation of the term, but it is also zvell ventilated^ a most necessary precau- 
tion for the preservation of perishable valuables. The internal police of the office has 
been organized with the most extraordinary care. The watch is kept night and day and is 
connected with the city police system to guard against unforeseen emergencies. In ad- 
dition to all the mechanical safeguard the capital of the company guarantees the perfect 
security of this depository for the accommodation of this community and the people of 
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and the parishes of this State who have no other 
such convenience. 

The reception of deposits of any value not too bulky for safe keeping is at a rate for 
Government bonds and such securities, less than one-third that charged by Insurance Co.'s 
for fire alone, in anj' amount however large or small, and for any time, thus offering 
special facilities to those keeping no bank account. Silver plate, bridal presents, jew- 
elry, money and valuable property of any nature, is recieved in sealed packages and 
kept in safe storage for any length of time. To persons visiting the summer resorts or 
going to Europe, this institution offers special privileges. Legal documents, wills, 
leases, insurance policies, and the like, are received at an almost nominal charge to 
guardians, trustees or administrators, affording the surest protection, and providing also 
by the system of registration, permanent proof of the trust that may at some time be of 
extraordinary value to the heirs or other persons concerned, by saving them vexatious I'iti- 
gation. The strictest confidence is maintained by the officers in all transactions. Cou- 
pons and interest will be collected when desired and remitted to owners. Persons at a 
distance may make deposits in the vault through the responsible express companies. 

The main vault or safe is constructed of alternate plates of iron and steel. It occu- 
pies a space twenty feet square immediately in the center of the first floor of the build- 
ing. The doors of it when closed, are locked with five distinct locks. The vault is 
fitted inside with 3,600 safes of wrought iron, each of which has a different lock, 2,500 
of them combination, the rest keys. No key will unlock any other than that lock to 
which it belongs. 

The exceedingly low terms of the company are as follows : 

Smallest safe, per year, $5 

Medium safe, according to location, $ 5 to 10 

Large safe, " " " 151050 

Banker's safe, extra large, 40 to 60 

Bank boxes (cards issued,) 5 to 10 

Guarantee rates for a year or less are : 

Government and all other securities including bank bills, $1 per $1,000 

Gold coin or bullion,.- 1.25 per 1,000 

Silver do do 2 per i, 000 

Silver or gold plate under seal on owner's estimate of full value and rate, subject to 
adjustment for bulk on a basis of $1 per $100. 

Deeds, mortgages, valuable papers generally when of no fixed value, $1 a year 
each, or according to bulk. 

Wills, $5, which premium is for the life of the maker. 



The Industries of New' Orleans. 6r 

Cash boxes in small tin boxes for papers of bankers, capitalists, merchants, law- 
yers, tradesmen, families etc. will be received at $5 each, and upwards as to size box 
per year, contents unknown to the company and liability limited or they will be in- 
sured for the full amount, the contents being known, at above rates. 

The list of stockholders of the Germania Company, embraces some of the most 
substantial men of the city. They are personally liable under their charter. The cap- 
ital stock is $200,000. The management is as follows : H. Zuberbier, President ; 
J. Hassinger, Vice-President; Emile Weber, Secretary ; W. C. Raymond, Custodian. 



The Germania Company as the caption of this article indicates, also carry on a 
general fire, marine and river insurance business. The paid up capital of this concern 
is $200,000. H. Zuberbier is the President; J. Hassinger, Vice President; Emile Weber, 
Secretary ; H. Knotsch, Inspector ; F. Chassaniol, Fire Clerk ; Directors : George H. 
Braughn, Herm. Curtius, P. W. Dielman, Mathias Doll, Jas. D- Edwards, Louis 
Grunewald, J. Hassinger, J. J. Langles, Frank Lewis, J. E. Merilh, J. B. Meyers, A. 
G. Ricks, John Thorn, Frank Vatter, J. J. Weckerling, H. Zuberbier. 

FISHER & CAULFIELD. 

Wholesale Liquor Dealers, Tobacconists and Commission Merchants, 34, 36 and 38 Canal street. 

The largest receiver of whiskies and tobaccos in New Orleans, is the house which is 
herein described. W. W. Fisher and Emile H. Caulfield make up a firm noted for the 
precise and systematic dispatch of all business confided to it. Having also direct and 
intimate relations with the distillers and manufacturers, it has special opportunities to 
accommodate its patrons. Its trade is principally local, except in the " Wenonah " and 
"Frontier" bi-ands of fine cut, (manufactured by Spence Bros. & Co., Ambrosia 
Works, Cincinnati), sales of which by this house exceed a million pounds — between 
$350,000 and $500,000 worth per annum, thus showing the remarkable popularity of 
those brands. 

The city sales of this house reach the sum of $500,000 a year. The preinises of 
this house, situated at the numbers designated in these headlines, are well calculated 
for the wholesale trade. The buildings occupied are the corner of Canal and Tchoupi- 
toulas, opposite the Customhouse, A stock sufficient to fill four floors of this building 
is carried at all times. The lower floor is set apart for the storage of whiskies, those 
above it for tobacco, case goods, etc. 

The list of goods sold by Fisher & Caulfield embraces: 

Mar_yland, Tennessee, and Kentucky whiskies. 

French brandies, case liquors, imported and California wines. 

Plug, twist, granulated, fine cut chewing and smoking tobaccos. 

Cigars, cigarettes, and fancy smoking tobaccos. 

North Carolina and Virginia manufactured tobaccos. 

The capital, credit and resources of this house are ample. Its import trade is with 
Spain, Germany, Scotland, and the old world generall}', and it was one of the first con- 
cerns of New Orleans to recognize the importance of the trade with the Spanish-Amer- 
ican States, in which part of the world it is making great headway. It should be re- 
membered that this house carries at all times the largest and most complete stock of 
plug tobacco of any in the city, as high as 60,000 pounds of Navy tobacco alone, being 
kept in store. 

THE ORLEANS COTTON PRESS. 

Fairchild & O'Brien, Lessees: South Peters, Front, Terpsichore and Thalia streets. 

The Orleans Cotton Press is well known as the oldest and also the largest institution 
of its kind in this section, as well as of the South, and it has a patronage corresponding 
with its extraordinary facilities for satisfying the traffic. Its immense Morse Press has 
a capacity of 1,000 bales a day, and the establishment, covering two square blocks, can 
store about 50,000 bales of the staple. The buildings were first erected in 1830, but 
they have been remodeled and reconstructed as improvements and circumstances re- 
quired. At present the lessees employ about 75 men, who are required at all times to 
exercise vigilance and are especially disciplined to their duties in case of fire. The 
system for such an event is a particularly good one. 

Messrs. Fairchild & O'Brien are notable in the trade for the dispatch and diligence 
with which they conduct the matters entrusted to them. This they are enabled to do 
in the busiest seasons with the help of their enormous expediting machinery, experi- 
enced assistants, speedy business system, and unlimited premises. In those other qual- 
ities of the true business man, integrity, liberality, and an accommodating disposition, 



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both gentlemen excel. In common with their associates of the cotton interests and 
industries, they are doing all in their power to bring the great Cotton Centennial Ex- 
position td a successful issue, and have contributed largely their time and means to 
that end without making themselves conspicuous in the management. 

B. D. WOOD & BROS. 

The Opposition Sea-Going Steam Tugs and Coal Vards: General Office, 25 Camp street; Tow-Boats at 

Levee, foot of Julia street. 




B. D. Wood, the senior member of the house whose affairs are touched upon just 
sufficiently to show the weighty and spirited concerns in which it is engaged, is assuredly 
entitled to the colloquial compliment " a live man." He is, with his brother, a heavy 
coal dealer. The firm runs Wood's Opposition Tow-Boat line. He himself is President 
of the Charlie Wood and the Elmer E. Wood Transportation Companies, and of the 
Wood Sectional Dry Dock Co.; is deep in the Exposition management; has just re- 
turned from the National Convention of Steam Navigation, and has a thousand interests 
here and elsewhere besides that give him but little leisure. He came to New Orleans in 
1S66, since which time he has been busied with public as well as private affairs of mo- 
ment without cessation. He has been a director of the Hibernia National Bank, and 
was President of the Spanish Fort Railway Co. He was presiding officer at the .St. Louis 
Convention of 18S3 for the improvement of the Mississippi River, and again was Chair- 
man of the Executive Committee that called the Cenvention in Washington for the 
same purpose last year. He is one of the States' Exposition Comniissioners and a mem- 
ber of the Board of Finance for the same; and with all these affairs still finds time to 
exert a most powerful influence in the shipping and coal trades. The Wood Bro's 
Coal Yards, established 1S71, deal in the best quality of Pittsburg and Anthracite Coal, 
and supply railways, steamers, plantations, presses, inills, etc., bj' the large quantity. The 
firm of B. D. Wood & Bros, consists of the gentleman whose characteristics have already 
been somewhat delineated, J. A., J. H. and Elmer E. Wood. Their branch house at 
Baton Rouge is styled Wood, Widney & Co. Its members are B. D. and Wm. H. 
Wood, and L. S. Widney. It is with the assistance of these competent and thorough- 
going business men that the principal of the house has been enabled to conduct so many 
and varied enterprises. 

The craft of Wood's Opposition Tugboat line, towing vessels from the sea to New 
Orleans, are distinguished by the sign, "B. D. Wood & Bros, Coal," on their pilot 
houses. These distinguishing marks are an interesting feature of the marine and river 
landscape of this vicinitv, for five boats are run constantly by the concern: the Rimer 
E. Wood, IV. M. \Vood,'Ckarlie Wood, Will H. Wood and Mamie Wood, and also the 
iron tug Relief, fitted with Carbonic Acid Gas Apparatus for extinguishing fires on 
shipboard. Tugs are alwaj-s ready at the headquarters on the Levee (foot of Julia 



. The Industries of New Orleans. 63 

-street) to tow and assist vessels.. A specialty is made of i-endering assistance to vessels 
in distress, the tugs being fitted with powerful Fire and Wrecking Pumps. 

The Wood sectional docks used for the repair of hulls, etc., are owned by this firm. 
Telephone 576 connects with the Camp street office of the house; No. 942 with the 
Towboat office. 

As an active member ot the Finance Committee of the Exposition; Mr. B. D. 
Wood has rendered assistance, pecuniary and otherwise, to advance that great popular 
^Southern project, that will not soon-be forgotten by his associates in the management, 
■or by the Public. Services that redound equally to his sagacity and influence have been 
freely and gratuitously given by him to help the good cause. He has taken great pride 
in the matter and will certainly share in whatever honor attaches to the conclusion of it. 

J. B. LALLANDE. 

Cotton Factor, Commission Merchant, and Agent for (he Sale of Cotton Seed Oil Mill Products, 

52 Union street. 

So excellently well known to the business community is the gentleman of whom these 
"few facts are recorded, that it almost seems unnecessary to relate them. As one whose 
many interests and investments make him inseparably identified with this great South 
•ern cominunity, as one of the public spirited citizens of Louisiana, and as a man of parts 
and influence, he is certainly one of the representative men of the time. Mr. Lallande 
was born here. His sentiments and property alike bind him to this spot. He was bred 
to the cotton trade, and served at it in the employ of some of the larger houses until his 
entry into a business career as a member of the firm of T. H. and J. M. Allen & Co. 
Subsequently he was a partner in Allen, Nugent & Co., and Nugent & Lallande, all of 
which houses are now in liquidation, Mr. Lallande's concern being the only survivor of 
them all in New Orleans. He has in charge the books and assets of these establishments. 

He deals largely in oil mill products. The sole agency for the sale of Linters, made 
by the "Planters-Crescent," "Louisiana," " CarroUton " and " Bienville" Oil Works 
has been entrusted to him. In addition he does a fine business in the staple itself and 
.a general commission business, maintaining for these purposes a membership in the 
Cotton, Sugar, and Produce Exchanges, in all of which his prompt and honorable busi- 
ness methods raise him to high esteem. In addition to these numerous schemes, he 
■still finds time for his duties as a director of the Canal Bank (with which concern he has 
been connected for twelve years) ; as director of the Merchant's Insurance Co. ; as Vice- 
President of the Monroe Oil Mill, Louisiana, and as one of the Board of the Louisiana 
Mill. It may well be'imagined after this recital of his affairs that he leads an ac- 
tive and a busy life. That his sentiments strongly attach him to his birthplace and sec- 
tion, is shown by his subscription to the Exposition^ and by the services rendered in 
'days gone by, but not forgotten, as Captain of the 13th Louisiana Infantry, C. S. A. 
He served the full term of four years, was wounded twice, and i-eturning, at the close of 
hostilities, resumed the pursuits of Peace without regret for the sacrifices he had made. 
These few facts roughly delineate the man and his characteristics, and convey only a 
Jbrief idea of his merits. It is a gratification to have opportunity to remark them. 

R. B. PLEASANTS. 

Cotton Picker}"-, 487 and 48c) Tchoupitoulas street. 

Identified with the cotton trade, and representative of one important branch of it — 
-one that, by reason of its economical purpose and results, adds to the general wealth of 
the cominunity — is the establishment which is the subject of this interesting bit of in- 
formation. This Pickery, which is of recent foundation, handles all kinds of irregular 
and damaged cotton. The good cotton is separated from the worthless or injured stuff, 
rebaled and resold. In picking it over it is graded and everything is resold, even the old 
bands and bagging. Burnt cotton is used principally for making felt. Cotton that has 
been wet and dried is shipped to Germany, where it is made up into cheap cloths. 
Good stuffs are too plentiful in this country and the machinery is lacking to make such 
an industry profitable here. 

R. B. Pleasants, the venturesome and spirited proprietor of this establishment, has 
been for twenty years a resident of this city, during which time he has always been con- 
nected with one branch or another of the cotton trade. His present employment is prov- 
ing a great success. He pays liberally for damaged cotton, and is inclined to deal clev- 
verly with all his customers. 

Mr. Pleasants may perhaps display the processes of cleaning, etc., during the Ex- 
position. In that great event he has taken more than ordinary interest, cheerfully con- 
tributing his assistance and subscription to help along the good cause. 



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THE ANCHOR LINE. 

St. Louis and New Orleans River Steamers: Capt. J. B. Woods, General Agent at New Orleans: 104. 

Common Street. 

The five magnificent steamboats of this company are the model passenger craft of 
the world. The Mississippi River boats have always been recognized as the finest ves- 
sels of the sort on earth, and as regards those of the Anchor line, the claim is indis- 
putable, and, for the matter of that, undisputed. The highest point of progress in 
inland navigation has been reached and is illustrated in such boats as the Cify of St. 
Louis, the City of Baton Rouge, and others of their class. The speed, safety, economy 
and accommodations, both for freight and passenger transportation, of these boats, is 
unrivalled. Railroads have their uses, but no such comfort, and even luxury, is possi- 
ble upon the rail as is furnished by the floating palaces of the great waterway. 

Four steamers of the Anchor line ply regularly between the two cities, St. Louis 
and New Orleans, connecting at points terminal and en route with all the highways of 
passage and commerce East, West, North and South. These vessels are: 

The City of Baton Rouge, Capt. H. E. Bixby, who taught Mark Twain the secrets 
of the river, and furnished that eminent literateur with some of his inspiration; the 
Cify of Bayou Sara, Capt. Wm. Baker; the City of New Orleans, Capt. A. J. Carter; 
the City of St. Louis, Capt. Dan Able; the Anna P. Silver, Capt. J. W. Bryan. 

These commanders are reckoned among the most experienced and expert navi- 
gators of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, devoted alike to the interests of the 
Company and of its patrons. In addition to these boats, the Company has a line 
running between St. Louis and Vicksburg. It is amply prepared with relief boats also, 
to accommodate the increased traffic on account of the Exposition, and is now having 
built, at Louisville, another elegant craft, by the famous builders, the Howards, of that 
city, who, by the way, built all of the Anchor line boats. The new steamboat will be 
the finest on the Mississippi by all odds. It will probably reach New Orleans on its first 
trip about March first next, and will be named City of Natchez. 




Boats of the Anchor Line leave New Orleans every Wednesday and Saturday for 
Baton Rouge, Natchez, Vicksberg, Greenville, (Miss.) Arkansas City, (Ark.) Ter- 
rene, (Miss.) Memphis, Cairo and St. Louis, making connections on the passage, at: 

Arkansas City with L. R., M. R. &T. Ry. for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and Hot 
Springs, Ark. 

Memphis, with M. & C. R. R. and Louisville Ry.'s for Eastern points. 

Cairo, with Illinois Central and with the Cairo & Vincennes for North and East. 

St. Louis, with all railroads centering there, and with the Diamond Joe line to 
Galena, Dubuque, St. Paul and Minneapolis. 

Through and round-trip tickets and freight rates, are given to all points tributa- 
ry. Inquiries answered by the agents promptly. New Orleans address, at the head of 
this article. 

The officers of this company are: President, Jno. A. Scudder, St. Louis; Super- 
intendent, Isaac M. Mason, St. Louis; Secretary, Theo. C.Zeigler, St. Louis; Agents, 
St. Louis, J. W. Carroll; Cairo, 111., Thos. W. Shields; Memphis, Tenn., Adrience 
Storm; New Orleans, Capt. J. B. Woods. 

Capt. Woods is a veteran of the river service. He has himself been in com- 
mand of river-boats and is well and favorably known, all along the coast. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 65 

A. K. MILLER & CO, 

Steamship and Ship Agents ; Dealers in Fertilizers : 37 Carondelet Street. 

A. K. Miller and H. Meletta, agents for three regular lines to Liverpool and tran- 
sient steam and sailing craft to Havre, Bremen. Antwerp, Hamburg, Liverpool and other 
European ports, have been in business here since 1871. They are also the agents for 
the celebrated Guion line running from New York to Liverpool, and for Ward and 
Holzapfel's new line from the Crescent City to Trieste, Austria. About twenty-one 
steamers in the regular lines to Liverpool, all iron, and sailing under the British and 
Spanish flags, are consigned to A. K. Miller & Co., and return by the way of Cuba and 
the West Indian ports. 

During the year. Miller & Co. load about 100 steamers, and as many sailing vessels, 
for all parts of the world. The house' issues drafts for amounts from £1 up, on all the 
principal cities of Europe. They have, too, the New Orleans agency for the passenger 
traffic between New York and Europe for the Cunard, White Star, Inman and other 
transatlantic lines. 

Steamers of the new Ward & Holzapfel's line will sail about the last week of each 
month. Thi-Qugh bills of lading will be issued to Venice by this line, to Fiume and to 
Buda-Pesth, Vienna and all that district. 

The firm is agent also for the Soluble Pacific Guano and Dissolved Bone Phosphate 
of Lime manufactured by the Pacific Guano Company, of Boston, Massachusetts. 
These popular high-grade fertilizers, which have been extensively used throughout the 
South since 1865, are again offered to dealers and planters. Their excellent quality and 
uniforiTily good results upon all crops are sufficiently proved by the immense increase in 
the annual sales, which now aggregate more than 50,000 tons each year. 

The Pacific Guano Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, has a capital of $1,000,- 
000, and its extensive works at Wood's Holl, Mass., and Charleston and Chisholm's 
Islands, S. C, are the largest and most complete in the country. It has in its employ a 
corps of competent and experienced chemists; and the planters who buy Soluble Pacific 
Guano may rest assured that the utmost care has been used in its manufacture, and that 
everything has been done which ample capital, long experience and si illf ul manipulation 
can accomplish toward making a fertilizer which will meet the requirements of plant 
growth. 

Owning and controlling, as the Company does, its sources of crude material, and 
importing in large quantities such ingredients as are purchased abroad, it is enabled not 
only to buy on the most advantageous terms, but to get the very best quality. 

The following is the analysis guaranteed by the Company for the Soluble Pacific 
Guano : 

{Soluble 6 to 8 per cent. 
Available 8 to 11 " 
Insoluble i to 3 " 

Ammonia Available 3 to 4 " 

Salts of Potash 6;^ to 9 " 

Bone Phosphate of Lime 23 to 26 " 

As there are other fertilizers now being placed on the market, under names similar 
to "Soluble Pacific Guano," planters who wish to secure the genuine article should see 
that the name, "Soluble Pacific Guano," is branded in full on each sack, as also the 
name of "Glidden & Curtis," general selling agents. Prices and terms will be furnished 
on application to A. K. Miller & Co., the agents, 37 Carondelet sti^eet. New Orleans, 
Louisiana. 

STEWART BROS. & CO. 

Commission Merchants and Cotton Factors: New Orleans, 46 Union street; Memphis, 356 and 35S 

Front street. 

Andrew Stewart, of New Orleans, and A. D. Gwynne, of Memphis, makeup the two 
well known firms of Stewart Bro.'s & Co., and Stewart, Gwynne &Co.,of New Orleans 
and Memphis. The house is an old one and has sterling characteristics. It was estab- 
lished in 1865 by Stewart, Galbraith & Fizer, the course of events having brought about 
the change to the present designations in the year 1873. No house of its line is better 
known or is preferred over it in Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. The cot- 
ton, sugar and molasses producers of these regions having displayed time and again a 
special favoritism for it, on account of its reliability and liberal methods. 

Mr. Andrew Stewart manages the New Orleans house and Mr. Gwynne the Mem- 
phis branch. Mr. Stewart has always conducted the affairs at this point. He holds for 
the firm a membership in the Cotton Exchange, where he is held in so much esteein as 
to have been chosen a director of it. Mr. Gwynne bears similar relations to the Mem- 



66 The Industries of New Orleans. 

phis Exchange. Mi-. Stewart is also a director of the Hibernia Bank and the Home In- 
surance Co. He has lived in the city since 1865, nnd has had thirty years' experience in 
cotton. 

The Memphis house does a great business in the wholesale grocery line besides its 
cotton transactions. There is also connected with the business there a cotton yard 
owned by the house, and it has a large interest in the Memphis Oil Mills. These few 
points illustrate the prominence of the house. Having so much in this section at stake, 
they have from the beginning warmly welcomed the Exposition project, subscribed to 
its funds liberally, besides rendering other and most efficient services in its behalf. 

BARKER & PESCUD. 

General Fire, Inland and Marine Insurance Agency, 58 Carondelet street. 

Representing: Assets. 

^tna Insurance Company, of Hartford $ 9,192,143 80 

Home Insurance Co., of New York 7,171,270 82 

Hartford Fire Insurance Co., of Hartford 4,437,280 56 

Continental Insurance Co., of New York 4,450,000 go 

Lion Fire Insurance Co., of London 5,657,819 42 

Washington Fire and Marine Insurance Co., of Boston 1,443,617 80 

Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Co., of Mass ->585,633 82 

London and Provincial Insurance Co., of London 5,000,000 00 

Commercial Insurance Co., of California 500,000 00 

Combined Assets $40,438,266 22 

With such facilities for the transaction of insurance business as the long list of 
standard agencies given above, indicates, the firm of Barker Si. Pescud may well be con- 
sidered as representative of the underwriting business in New Orleans. Mr. P. A. Bar- 
ker has had about twenty years experience as an underwriter, five years an agent at 
Natchez, fifteen years an agent here. He managed successfully both the Natchez and 
New Orleans agencies until about three years ago when he sold the Natchez agency to 
a. former employee. Mr. Barker has made a fine reputation as a conservative underr 
writer, and the companies know how to appreciate him. He is too well known to 
justify us in saying more. Mr. P. F. Pescud though comparatively a stranger in New 
Orleans, has made a reputation as an underwriter, not only south but north, and at the 
time he located here was connected with the American branch in New York of the 
Commercial Union Assurance Co., of London, one of the largest companies in the 
world. Mr. Pescud had entire charge of their Southern department and made money 
for the company. 

The co-partnership was formed in May, 1S83, '^"'^ commands a fair share of the busi- 
ness of this section. These gentlemen make a specialty of placing large lines of insur- 
ance, and many of the largest mercantile and manufactvuing establishments in the 
southwest give them entire charge of their business. No prudent business man will buy 
a piece of real property without having a good lawyer say that the chain of title is per- 
fect, consequently no prudent business man ought to take an insurance policy unless it 
is written by a well posted underwriter, familiar with the law of insurance and the con- 
ditions of the policy. It will avoid trouble. The companies represented by Barker & 
Pescud, with their unlimited resources and extraordinary capital, are unassailable by 
any calamity, as was proven at Chicago and Boston. The ^tna with her $9,192,643 80: 
the Home N. Y. with her$7, 171, 27082 ; the old Hartford with $4,337,28056; the Spring- 
field with $2,585,633 82; the Washington, of Boston with $1,443,617 So; the Continental 
of N. Y. with $4,450,000, are as strong as the government itself, and standing at the 
head of the list of the monied institutions of this country, command the patronage of 
the insuring public. 

The Commercial, of California, though a small company, is ably managed and is as 
good with her $500,000 for every risk she takes, as the yellow gold found in her native State. 

The Lion Insurance Co., of London, with $5,657,819 42, and the London and 
Provincial of London with her $5,000,000 stand high the world over and command a 
fine business in the United States. 

The companies represented by Barker & Pescud insure all kinds of property, allow- 
ing the same rebates as the New Orleans companies and pay their losses in this 
city. Call at No. 58 Carondelet street and see these gentlemen before placing your in- 
surance elsewhere. Their rates on buildings, dwellings especially, for one, three or five 
years will astonish you. A policy of insurance is a promise to pay, and at a time 
when it is needed badly, so look at the standing of the company as you would the stand- 
ing of parties offering negotiable paper. Undoubted security is what you want. 



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67 




F. HOLLANDER & CO. 

Importers and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Wines and Liquors, ^i and S3 Customhouse street. 

This fine and firmly established house has 
had fifteen years of continuous and prosper- 
ous operation under the management of the 
gentleman whose name is the title for the firm. 
Mr. Ed. Goetz for the past three years has been 
Mr. Hollander's partner. Together they con- 
duct one of the briskest concerns in the whole- 
sale trade to be found in this part of the world. 
This house has always been in this block and 
1 the changes of location that have been made 
by it, have been in the direction of improve- 
iment and expansion merely. Six floors, each 
30x125, are occupied by the firm, that area 
being necessary for the great Louisiana trade 
the house has to satisfy. 

Some idea of the wide transactions of this 
house may be got from the fact that it holds 
the following agencies: 

Rosskam, Gerstley & Co., Philadelphia, 
Ryes, Silver, Golden, and Diamond Wedding, 
Imperial and Gem Nectar. 
E. H. Taylor & Co., O. F. C. Sour Mash Whisky. 
W. A. Gaines & Co., Old Crow and Hermitage whiskies. 
A. Laroque, Bordeaux, Medoc Clarets. 

Hardwig Kantorowitz, Posen, Gei-many ; Coi-dials and Lithauer Bitters, and Kimmels. 
H. W. Smith & Co., La Belle Creole and Thistle Dew Whisky. 
The Schlitz Beer; Moerlein's Cincinnati Brewery; Reed's New Haven Bitters. 
Arpad Harasthy's California Eclipse champagne, wines and brandies, and Orleans 
Hill Vineyard. 

The principal European and California wine makers, 

The display made by this house at the Exposition (Main building) is in every way 
worthy the standing of the concern. They have a most excellent, neat and attractive 
illustration of the fine California products (Harasthy's), including brandies, sherry and 
champagne. Arpad Harasthy is the greatest expert of the Pacific Coast, and it may be 
relied upon that he has sent the finest productions of his vineyards. The California 
brandy has but lately begun to attract attention. Its chief recommendation is its purity 
and native flavor. Visitors to the great Fair should by all means examine these fine 
liquors in Hollander & Co's. exhibit. 

Mr. Hollander has lived in New Orleans about forty years. Before going into this 
line he was prominent as a shoe manufacturer, which pursuit he deserted to adopt one 
more congenial to his tastes. Mr. Goetz is also an old resident, having been a citizen 
here since the year before the war. About thirteen years of this time he has spent in 
the liquor trade. 

A. B. GRISWOLD & CO. 

Importers of Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry and Silverware, Corner of Canal and Royal Streets. 

This hale and vigorous representative of the historical houses of New Orleans, has 
passed its sixtieth year of continuous transactions, as sound, reliable and progressive as 
when its affairs were directed by the high-spirited and broad-minded merchant whose 
name it still bears, although he has long since passed away. Mr. Hyde, the founder of 
the house, settled in New Orleans away back in the twenties. He commenced business 
at the corner of Chartres and St. Louis streets. "His little store," says an account 
published of that era, "was then filled with a motley assortment of merchandise suita- 
ble to the wants of the community at that early period, and did not have the distinctive 
character it now bears. There the Creole of the town or from the plantations could buy 
a pair of ear-rings or a straw hat; a silver mug or a tin bucket; a wedding ring or a 
flatiron; in fact, though the amount of stock was limited enough, the same could not 
be said of its variety, and the old colored porter of the firm used frequently to say that 
he had belonged to'the firm from the time when he could carry the whole stock in trade 
on his back," 

Until his decease, some seven years ago, Mr. A.B. Griswold was continually a mem- 
ber of the lirm and was long its guiding spirit. Since his death, Mr. Henry Ginder has 



68 The Industries of New Orleans. 

managed the business, retaining the designation by which the house is so widely knowni 
and esteemed. Hyde & Goodrich was the original title taken by the house. Under this- 
name a uniform course of upright dealings gradually expanded the business of the 
house, and by painstaking selections of goods the house soon came into the highest 
repute for its wares and merchandise, particularly in the line of watches, jewelry and 
silverware, which fact doubtless directed it toward that exclusive line of trade. In the 
halcvon days of the city this house had a great Mexican trade in assorted merchandise,, 
the diversion of which commerce from the cit_y, later, affecting the change to a special 
branch, with the causes just mentioned. 

Another quotation from the interesting sketch above alluded to, will perhaps more 
brieflv convey the story of the growth of this time-honored establishment: 

" In 1853, the firm removed for the third time to their present stand, at the corner 
of Canal and Royal Streets, one of that beautiful row known as the Touro buildings. 
Canal street had not at this time assumed its full rank as the main business artery of 
New Orleans, but was taking rapid strides towards it. Judah Touro, the wealthy Israel- 
ite who built and owned this fine block, aware of the importance of securing first-class 
tenants and desiring to attract trade from Chartres street to Canal street, offered Messrs. 
Hyde & Goodrich a very advantageous lease if they make the first move — some four or five 
prominent firms in the same street agreeing to move if they did. At the same time the Bar- 
oness de Pontalba-, who had recently completed the two fine rows of stores on either side 
of Jackson Square (then Place d'armes), used every effort to induce the firm to return, 
toward their original location, offering them the choice of the stores with a two years' 
lease, free of rent. Very wisely, as results proved, they decided on taking no backward 
step, but following the indications of the maich of business, embraced the offer of Touro, 
and were the first, as they have been the only occupants of the Corner of Canal and 
Roval streets for the last twenty jears. Some years before the war, Mr. Hyde retired 
from the firm, and occupied himself with attending to its business in New York as an 
agent." 

Other changes in the personnel of the firm caused by death, retirement, etc., finally 
resulted in the appellation now honored in the commercial world as that of a strictly first- 
class house. The house is the Southern depot for the silverware of the famous Gorham 
Manufacturing Co. It has the finest assortment of the wares of that company in the 
South, and from photographic designs which it holds, can execute at short notice any 
orders for articles not in its stock. A. B. Griswold «& Co. are also agenis for the Seth 
Thomas Clock Co., who make the most reliable tower clocks, with illuminated dials, tro 
order. Up-stairs in A. B. Griswold & Co.'s establishment is the repair department and 
workshops, where Swiss or English watches are put in perfect order, and the most deli- 
cate specimens of the goldsmiths' and enamelers art are produced. In this latter indus- 
try, as well as with their silverware, A. B. Griswold & Co. have repeatedly distanced all 
competitors at the State Fairs of the Southern States. A Handbook for Purchasers of 
Silver-cvare, published by the house and furnished upon application, is a most useful 
work for intending buyers. 

The extraordinai-y resources and ample facilities of this house for the selection and 
purchase of foreign and domestic jewelry, diamonds, watches, clocks, bronzes, etc., are 
so well understood to the trade that contemporary houses make no pretensions to rivalry.. 
Having maintained a New York and European agency for forty years, they have many 
advantages that are denied to firms of lesser importance. The house invites inspection, 
of its goods and comparison of its prices with those of other establishments. Strangers- 
especially welcomed. 

LEON QUEYROUZE, 

Wholesale Groceries and Liquors: 97 Decatur Street. 

The old firm of Carriere & Barau, of which this house is the successor, w-as estab- 
lished in 1835. ^" 1840, the gentleman whose name heads this sketch succeeded them. 
He has lived here, altogether, fifty-three years, and has always been in this one line of 
trade. Right after the war the house will be remembered as Queyrouze & Bois, corner 
of Decatur and Bienville streets. In 18S3, that firm was dissolved, and Mr. Queyrouze 
has continued the business by himself since that time. Whatever weight and dignity 
age adds to a business house, this concern certainly has. It is one of the soundest con- 
cerns of its kind in all this locality, trusted alike for its clever management and liberal 
dealings. The house deals in groceries at wholesale, imports fine wines and liquors, and 
performs commission services in w^estern and country produce. Its trade is mostly with 
Louisiana, but it has a good run of custom aside from that district. It is agent for the 
much esteemed "Chateau Bellevue" French claret and other excellent brands. And it 
is about the oldest house of the sort in New Orleans. 



The Industries of New Orleans, 



69 



A. BALDWIN & Co. 

Hardware : 74 Canal, 91 to 93 Common street. 

This, the foremost house in 

its line in all the South, was 

^ founded in the year 1822, bj 

^\ Samuel B. Slocomb. Various 

■ changes were made in the firm 

name in the natural course of 

events, by death, retirement, 

etc., but the house has survived 

them all, retaining its prestige 

under successive managers as 

one that was founded firmly on 

true business principles, and 

surviving all the many vicissi- 

tudes of commercial affairs for 

^=1 sixty-two years. The principal 
' changes have been to Rogers, 
Sill & Slocomb, to C. H. Slo- 
comb & Co., Slocomb, Baldwin 
& Co . , and to the present widely 
known designation, that which 
heads this account. Several in- 
terests are represented in the 
partnership, the principal of 
which, are those of A. Baldwin, 
C. Eustis, general partner, and 
Mrs. Abbey Day Slocomb, wid- 
i, ow of the late Captain C.H.Slo- 
g comb, ('in commendam) . The 
"house occupies large quarters, 
but the premises do not repre- 
sent the true extent of the busi- 
ness carried on, samples only, 
being kept of certain lines for 
obvious reasons. Much of the 
™»., bulky goods are in storage else- 
liin|j where. This house carries a 
|j| stock of hardware, including 
™ everything that the commercial 
word covers, unsurpassed by any 
in the United States. Some of 
its specialities, such as the Bald- 
win axe, have completely shut 
out the other brands from this 
market. A trade reaching from 
the Missouri to the Amazon, 
and from the Rio Grande to the 
Florida Keys, demands many 
such specialties, and to supply 
this vast territory, something 
like seventy-five or eighty men 
are employed. The annual pay 
roll of the house foots up to 
$50,000. The sales approxi- 
mate a million dollars per an- 
num. A stock worth perhaps 
half that is sometimes carried. 
The traveling salesmen number 
ten. Cutlery, guns, and various 
supplies are the specialties of 
the house. As may well be 
imagined, this house wields a 
great influence, and has done much in a quiet way to assist New Orleans to her present 
commercial supremacy. 




70 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



JOHN P. RICHARDSON. 



Dry OoDcls and Notions, Manufacturers' Agent : New Orleans Office, corner Magazine and Common,. 
New York Office, 34 Thomas Street. 

Pre-eminently a representative of the higher mercantile community, with its inti- 
mate and direct relations to the great Northern and home manufacturers, with its enor- 
mous capital, with wide-spread connections throughout the South and amongst Spanish- 
speaking consumers, with its reputation for foresight and intelligence in the conduct of 
business affairs, it would be labor lost and time misspent if no mention was made of the 
great dry goods house which bears the name of John P. Richardson, and which is located 
at the corner of Common and Magazine streets, where it was established in the year 
1879. Chas. A. Lyerly was tor a time interested in the house, but Mr. Richardson seems 
to have preferred to bear the responsibilities and cares of management alone and' is now 
the sole proprietor. 

It is because this is one of the great houses of the evtreme Southern metropolis, 
that the following agencies have been entrusted to it. The house represents: 

The Odell Manufacturing Co. The Mississippi Mills. 

The Ullman Woolen Mills. The Stonewall Manufacturing Company. 

The Bell Factory. The Wanita Mills. 

The sole agency, at this point, for the celebrated Granitte Checks and Plaids, and for 
the National Tickings is also held by this house. This concern carries a stock worth 
almost half a million dollars, and its transactions reach $1,200,000 yearly. Its corps of 
travelincr salesmen cover the most remote territory, entering into direct competition with 
St. Louis and other great Northern cities, far beyond the borders of Louisiana, and 
successfully bidding for the trade of the Spanish American Republics. The forty odd 
busy emploj'es, the' immense warerooms, the bustle and activity surrounding this estab- 
lishment, indicate the vast trade that is carried on from it. Mr. Richardson is a Missis- 
sippian by birth, is in the prime of life, is noted for activity and business qualifications, 
and has immense resources to back him in any enterprise he may undertake. In short, 
he is one of New Orleans' "merchant princes." 

C. H. CHASE. 

Cotton Pickery, corner of Tchoupitoulas and Orange streets. 

Fiftv-two jears residence in a community and fortj'-six of that time in one line of 
business", is an experience that can be recounted by but few men now living; such, how- 
ever, is the record of the subject of this sketch. Mr. C. H. Chase came here from the 
State of Maine in 1832. He has been connected with the cotton trade since 1838, and 
has been in the pickery branch of it for forty years and more. He is proprietor of the 
two largest pickeries in the world, those located at Constance and Orange, and at 
Orange and Tchoupitoulas. Together they cover an area equal to half a square. He 
buys damaged cotton and works it over, in fact any thing else in the cotton line, good, 
bad or indifferent that can be prepared for felting, shoddy stuff, or other European 
export. 

As the representative concern of his line, Mr. Chase was early called upon to assist 
the Exposition fund. His response was prompt and acceptable. Mr. Chase employs 
a large number of men, and pays the fairest wages. As an institution that utilizes 
what would otherwise be waste and loss, this manufactory is a source of wealth, and a 
factor in the general prosperity of the city not to be despised. Thousands of dollars 
annually are contributed to the general fund in circulation, by its operation, and its 
total makes no inconsiderable part of the grand total of business transactions for the 
citv. Liberal terms for damaged cotton, etc. 

JOHN I. ADAMS & CO. 

wholesale Grocers and Liquor Dealers: 43,45 and 47 Peters street (formerly New Levee). 

In the compilation of a work like this, a house of the character and standing of that 
which is the subject of this sketch could not be overlooked. Established in 1841, it has 
attained in the interim a prestige rivaled by but few of its commercial competitors. 
Commanding a large and available capital during all these years, its trade has finally ex- 
tended until its goods are marketed througjiout the entire South, as well as in foreign 
parts. The name of John I. Adams, the original founder of the house, is still a tower 
of strength in mercantile circles- The specialt}' of this firm is their trade in coffee, su- 
gar, molasses and rice, in the handling of which along and varied experience has given 
them many advantages over competing houses. In addition to these articles, a vast 
trade is done in provisions of all sorts, and in wines and liquors. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 71 

PURVES' SASH FACTORY. 

Lumber, Lath, Shingles etc ; Planing and Molding Factory : Corner of St. Charles and Clio streets; 

0.tice,40 Carondelet street. 

This fine establishment was begun twentj-five years ago, with minor advantages- 
and little assistance, by Geo. Purves, the father of the present manager of the place. It 
is now as large a factory as any of the same sort in the South. Mr. Purves, Jr., who was- 
well known and much esteemed in his life time, died in 18S3. He was a man of mark 
in the trade and had the distinction of being one of the founders and a director of the 
Mechanics, Dealers and Lumbermen's Exchange, one of the most useful institutions of 
the city. 

The factory and yards take in a block and a half of ground. It is notable as having- 
remarkably fine and complete machinery. It employs about seventy-five men at all 
times, for it does not depend upon a local trade alone, the Lousiana, Texas, Alabama 
and Florida builders placing great reliance in it because of the accuracy and finish of its 
manufactured stuffs, and the care that is taken in despatching orders. Nothing but the 
best seasoned lumber is put into its doors, sashes, blinds and other manufactured wood- 
works, cypress principally beiing used, which, as is well known, must be thoroughly sea- 
soned or it cannot be finished. 

Mr. Geo. S. Purves has taken his father's place in the regard of the patrons of the- 
house. He was bred to the busine-'^s, and thoroughly understands both the mechanicaL 
and commercial operations of a mill. 

J. C. MULLER. 

Importer and Jobber of Millinery and Fancy Goods, Hats, Flowers, Feathers, Tri Timings, etc., 63and 

65 Customhouse street. 

The gentleman who conducts the wholesale millinery establishment at numbers 63 
and 65 Customhouse street, was formerly in the same line in Mobile, and is as well 
known to dealers in that section, as he is here in New Orleans. He has done business 
in one part of the south or another for twenty-five years, and now has a patronage cov- 
ering about all the states along this belt of country. The business run by him is first- 
class in every respect. He is an importer of velvets, velveteens, and other choice stuffs, 
and supplies the retail milliners of the South with ribbons, flowers, feathers, laces, silks, 
rufilings, veilings, ornaments, and all the et ceteras of the hat trade. He has been in 
business since i860 here, and has occupied two large stores at the place above men- 
tioned, without change, ever since. 

The standing of this house requiring it to show a certain public spirit, it has made- 
a most attractive display of ribbons, etc., at the Exposition. Visitors to the Fair will, 
easily find this exhibit at the left of the Assembly Hall 

THE NEW ORLEANS INSURANCE COMPANY. 

J. Tuyes, President; Ad Schreiber, Vice President; J. W. Hincks, Secretary, Jos. A. Hincks, Assistant; 
Secretary; Office, No. 3 Carondelet street; Branch, Corner Elysian Fields and Moreau street. 

Established in 1805, the New Orleans Insurance Company is not only the oldest 
insurance institution in New Orleans, but is also one of the time-honored corporations 
of the United States. Since that date it has passed through the many vicissitudes of 
the most stirring century of the Earth's history, not altogether unaffected bj' the wars 
and panics and pestilences and great conflagrations of this age, but at all events, un- 
harmed by them, as its pi-esent prosperous existance conclusively proves. It was first 
intended to be a marine company, and for this purpose its capital was fixed at $300,000, 
a large sum for those days. In 1826 it was granted authority also to insure against fire 
The charter was again amended in 1859, '^^^ the capital was then increased to $500,000. 
Again, on May 15th, 1884, the charter was renewed. 

From the foundation, this company has had a career of success, because it has had 
capable and efficient officers, and because its policy has, as becomes an institution of so 
ripe an age, been to be conservative, honest and square. This is best evidenced by the 
selection of directors which was made at the time of the renewal. Twelve more sub- 
stantial citizens, or gentlemen identified to a greater degree with the business and 
manufacturing interests of the city and state, can not be found. They are : 

Jules Aldige, E. Forestier, Theo. Brierre, H. Gaily, A. Schreibei", Chas. T. Du- 
gazon, Chas. Lafitte, Chas. E. Schmidt, Thurman C. Pemberton, D. Fatjo, Pierre 
Poutz, Jules Tuyes. 

Marine Policies are payable in London or Paris. The capital stock is a half a 
million, the assets $834,440.58. The assistants in the office of this company have been- 



^2 The Industries of New Orleans. 



specially selected for their various positions, and have a special fitness for the under- 
writing^business This is an institution of which New Orleans may well feel justly 
proudr Following is its last annual statement, (18S3) : 

Fire premiums $644,118 33 

Marine premiums 227,408 48 

River premiums 37,703 99-$909,22S 80 

Earned premiums for year 18S2 201,11 7 02 

Total premiums $i>iio,342 82 

Deduct — (t ft r 

Unearned pi-emiums *"q«'q '^ %^ 

Return premiums 88,840 82 

Reinsurances 169,917 84— 475.456 58 

Net earned premiums $634,886 24 

Add— 

Interest on investments $33>38^ 42 

Salvage 7,7i3 48— 41. "95 9° 

Net Income $675,982 14 

Deduct— Fire losses • $332,155 56 

Marine losses 107,175 30 

River losses ■ 7,746 65 

Total losses $447,^77 5^ 

Rebate, commissions, taxes and exp 213,556 33 — 660,633 §4 

Net profit « $15,34830 

-A-dd — ^ . ^ J. .J J J 
Amount to credit of profit and loss after paying $50,000 dividends dur- 
ing the year $88,205 15 

Total surplus $103,553 45 

Deduct — 
Claims adjusted, unadjusted and resisted 58,438 46 

Net surplus $45,"4 99 

ASSETS, AT MARKET VALUE. DECEMBER 3I, 1SS3 : 

Cash in banks $94,18936 

United States 4 per cent bonds 248,000 00 

New Orleans Waterworks bonds. 26,000 00 

New Orleans City R. R. Co. bonds 27,50000 

Banks, R. R. and" other Stock, par value 13,880 00 

Levee Steam Cotton Press bonds 24,720 00 

New Louisiana Jockey Club stock 750 00 

City real estate 63,581 00 

First mortgage notes 129,364 08 

Loan on call 66,920 17 

Pledge notes 10,000 00 

Bills receivable in settlement of premiums 14,348 45 

Premiums in course of collection 1 10, 149 44 

Due by agents and in course of transmission 916 65 

Suspence account 2S3 36 

Due by insurance companies for reinsurances 8,838 07 — $839,440 58 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital stock $500,000 00 

Reserve for unearned premiums 216,697 92 

Reserve for unadjusted claims 58,438 46 

Dividends unclaimed 4,37° 50 

Due Ins. Cos. for reinsurances 14,818 71 

Net surplus as above 45,114 99— $839,440 58 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



73 




F. P. MARTINEZ. 

Manufacturer of and Wholesale Dealer in Boots and Shoes, Nos. 7 and g Magazine st. 

Undoubtedly the largest and oldest Shoe Manufac- 
turing Establishment in Louisiana is that of F. P. 
Martinez, whose factory is located on Chartres street 
and whose salesrooms are at numbers 7 and 9 Mag- 
azine street. Recprds of this house running back for 
nearly sixty years, show that it was established as far 
back as 1S27 by Tirrell & Bates, who were regai'ded as 
the most enterprising merchants of their day. For 
forty years of the sixty referred to, the present man- 
aging proprietor has been connected with the trade, 
in the beginning as a subordinate, but rising by suc- 
cessive steps to the privileges and responsibilities of 
a partnership. 

Upon Mr. Bates' death, he acquired an interest in 
the business of the house, and in 1869, when Mr. Tir- 
rell withdrew, the firm name and designation was 
changed to its present style, that which heads this 
article. Messrs. Robt. Ross and E. M. Martinez now 
divide with their energetic senior, the cares of super- 
vision over the wide spread interests of the concern, 
which includes a patronage reaching all over Louisi- 
ana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Florida, Arkansas and into Central America. 

The head of this great house can justly claim the credit of being "The" shoe 
manufacturer of this section, not only on account of length of service, but by reason of 
the sagacity he has displayed in developing a paying industry where others have re- 
peatedly attempted, and as repeatedly failed. Indeed, it is notorioiis, that, although 
Mr. Martinez was the first to establish a factory in this vicinity, braving all the obstacles 
of a new and untried venture, he has been the only really successful manufacturer of 
Boots and Shoes in New Orleans. This is the best illustration of his business methods 
that could be cited. 

The factory turns out from two hundred to three hundred pairs daily according to 
the demands oi the market, and these goods are favorite on account of their very gen- 
eral excellence. 

At its warerooms, the house of Martinez carries a full line of all sorts of foot-wear; 
there are eight floors at numbers 7 and 9 Magazine street, all well stocked with every 
thing that is worn in the way of Boots and Shoes. 

With its accomplished corps of salesmen, speaking all the languages of this part of 
world, the house is enabled to meet every emergency of the inarket, and has not been 
slow to take advantage of its ample resources. With the natural ambition of a master 
mind, Mr. Martinez can certainly lay claiin to an expert knowledge of the trade, and 
none excel him in his intimate acquaintance with the details of the manufacture of the 
article he sells. 

Knowing the value of fair dealing, honesty and frankness in his transactions with 
his customers, purchasers can rest assured that the goods he offers are as they are rep- 
resented to be, and are sold at fair prices. 

MANNING & RENAUD. 

Manufacturers' Agents : go Poydras street ; Warelouses, 93 and 95 South Peters street. 

John A. Norton and E. T. Manning were the original partners in this house, which 
began operations seven or eight years ago, but Mr. J. K. Renaud has since succeeded Mr. 
Norton, and the firm name is as indicated in the above display lines. The trade of this 
house is mostly with the wholesale houses of New Orleans, and in foreign shipments. 
They deal in merchandise of all descriptions, but are the special agents for this and the 
surrovmding territory of the Creole Oil Refining Company, and for the Hazard gun- 
powder, the latter of which is a household word and almost a household necessity. 
This house has struck the keynote of popularity and is doing a most prosperous busi- 
ness. It is conducted on modern business principles and is a pushing, active concern. 
It is the agent for the great house of N. K. Fairbanks & Co., for the Geo. P. Plant 
Milling Company, of 'St. Louis; for the Goodwin Manufacturing Company, of the 
same place; for the Geo. Fox Staixh Company, and for the A. Erkenbrecher Starch 
Works of Cincinnati. 

This sterling concern holds a high place among the representative houses of 
the city. 

6 



74 The Industries of New Orleans. 

A. CUSIMANO & CO. 

Shipping and Commission Merchants : Agents of the Mediterranean and New York S. S. Companies; 

14^. Decatur street. 

The fruit trade between Sicily and New Orleans is no insignificant feature of the 
foreign commerce of the Crescent City. That it is such is largely due to the efforts of 
the pushing and enterprising house of A. Cusimano & Co., of No. 144 Decatur street, 
who are agents for Phelps Bros. & Co's. Mediterranean and New York S. S. Co. (Lim- 
ited), a line that, plying between Palermo, Messina, and other Mediterranean shipping 
points, and New Orleans, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc., transacts the larger 
part of the business in imported fruits of the United States. Five steamers of this line, 
built for fruit traffic exclusively, and expressly constructed for the fruit carrying, pi}' 
regularly between New Orleans and the afore mentioned Italian cities. They are all 
fine, speedy, first class iron vessels, of about 2,000 tons register each. 

A. Cusimano and Charles Adoue are the firm of A. Cusimano & Co. The house 
was established in New Orleans about eight years ago. Besides attending to the affairs 
of the steamship company, the firm transacts a general commission business. Their 
offices abroad are : New York, 66 and 68 New street; Boston, 38 Central street; Palermo, 
Italy, 8 Via Lombardo Borgo. 

The house is rated among the most responsible, most circumspect, and yet ener- 
getic firms in its line. Its transactions are large and its field of operations, particularly 
in this section of the Union, a growing one. In brief it is one of the model establish- 
ments of the community, and worthy the confidence and good opinions expressed of it. 

THE FACTORS AND TRADERS INS. CO. 

Ed, A, Palfrey, President; John Chaffe, Vice President; T. F. Walker, Secretary : Office, 49 Carondele 

street. 

This company, which was incorporated 1866, has the largest paid up capital ($1,000,- 
000) of any in this city. Its risks are divided between the fire, marine and river branches 
of its business. The list of directors, as follows, is significant of its soundness and secu- 
rity. They are all men whose individual capital is immense, and are responsible in 
direct proportion : 

John I. Noble, John Chaffe, Richard Milliken, Samuel Friedlander, R. M. Walms- 
ley, A. H. May, Samuel H. Boyd, Wm. J. Behan, B. F. Eshleman, Wm. Hartwell, C. 
J. Leeds, A. T. Janin, Louis Bush, A. Brittin, Jno. I. Adams, R. T. Buckner, Chas. E. 
Black, Jno. V. Richards, Thomas Day, Samuel Delgado, Jno. P. Richardson, Jas. T. 
Rodd, John Phelps, Jules A. Blanc, W. H. Boffinger. 

The company has a branch office at No. 5. St. Ann street for the accommodation of 
its city patrons. The Factors and Traders Company has had, at times, hea%'y drains on 
its indemnity funds, but it has met them all with an alacrity that has inspired the public 
with confidence in its management. Profiting by the experience of older but less for- 
tunate companies, it has directed its business so as to avoid the great calamities, such as 
the Chicago and Boston fires, that at intervals have overtaken and ruined, in the past, 
the strongest insurance associations. Its agencies are established throughout the inte- 
rior of Louisiana and in the Southern cities, so as to accommodate the patronage of 
those sections. All inquiries addressed to them or to the main office will be promptly 
answered, and business proffers speedily attended to. 

LUCAS E. MOORE & CO. 

Steamship j^gerts: Cotton, Grain, and Coffee Merchants: 66 Baronne street. 

The pioneer steamship connecting New Orleans regularly with Liverpool, was the 
Fire ^iiecn of the Harrison Line, which made her first trip in 1866. This company 
now has twenty-three steamers running to New Orleans from various English ports. 
The completion of the Jetties has boomed the Em-opean freight-carrying trade im- 
mensely, a prospect, which five years ago, Messrs. Lucas E. Moore & Co. (L. E. 
Moore and Alfred L. Blanc) Avere not slow to profit by. The only line still running 
direct to Liverpool, and making continuous round trips all through the year, is the 
Harrison line. Every week one of the line sails for Liverpool direct, but the company 
also runs via the West Indies and the Spanish Main, occasional trips. About fifty 
steamers are employed by it aitCigether. Of course the principal freight of these 
steamships is cotton, grain, and coffee,jind in that sort of merchandise, having special 
facilities for shipment and purchase, this house deals largely. Its trade is mostly for- 
eign, therefore, and very much of it commission and shipping transactions. Freight 
and passage lates by the Harrison steamers, can be obtained upon application at 66 
Baronne street, the office of the firm. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 75 

NEWTON BUCKNER. 

Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant: 53 Carondelet street. 

The factor who is the subject of this sketch was born in New Orleans, and brought 
■up in the cotton trade, in which line he has attained to marked pi-ominence. He is 
■chairman of the Cotton Exchanges' committee on Membership, a post of honor for 
which his wide acquaintance and decision of character thoroughly fits him. He is also 
a director of that substantial underwriting concern, the Liverpool, London and Globe 
Insurance Company. 

The house whose operations he directs is about the oldest of the sort in this vicinity; 
that is to say, it was established at an earlier date than almost any in the same branch 
of the traffic in cotton. It was founded in 1838 by H. S. Buckner, and although the 
usual number of changes have marked the lapse of time since, it still retains the family 
name for its mercantile designation. It has all the solidity and reputability of an old 
house, combined with the activity and energy of a management still in its prime. 
Trustworthy to an eminent degree, it enjoys a patronage coming from all this belt of 
States, and its business-like methods have been approved by numberless producers of 
the staple with whom it deals. Sales upon commission made by it are properly and 
promptly attended, and liberal advances are^ made upon consignments to the house 
The house at 53 Carondelet street is certainly representative of high character and com- 
mercial soundness. 

THE LOUISIANA COTTON PRESS. 

E. K. Bryant, Proprietor: St. Thomas, Terpsichore, Robin and Chippewa streets. 

Mr. Bryant and his establishment together furnishing the subject for this sketch, 
have had about the same length of useful service to the trade and the community. Mr. 
Bryant has been connected with the cotton traffic in one capacity or another since he 
reached his majority. He is now a hate and hearty man of three score and ten. The 
Louisiana Press has had forty-five or fifty years continuous operation under different 
managers, and has been repaired and improved to keep pace with the progress of the In- 
dustry. It has been equipped with a Morse 84-inch Cylinder Compress and all the ap- 
proved accessories, including satisfactory precautions against fire, thus reducing risks on 
the stored staple to the minimum. A thousand bales a day is the limit of the machin- 
ery, and from sixty to seventy men are considered a sufficient force of hands. The stor- 
age capacity of the warehouse and sheds is 35,000 bales. 

The long and wide acquaintance of the pi-oprietor with producers and shippers, ac- 
quired during a life-long experience, gives him an especial patronage of his own, which 
remains with him, notwithstanding the inducements of less responsible concerns; never- 
theless, new custom and trade is cordially welcomed, and accorded the same treatment 
as any others. Safety and expedition in handling the stuff confided to this Press is one 
of its strongest characteristics. An unbroken record of honorable dealings extending 
over fiftv years of his life-time, is properly appreciated and carefully adhered to by the 
respected and esteemed proprietor of this efficient and popular press. Telephone con- 
aiection with the business center. 

THE SOUTHERN TRANSPORTATION LINE. 

For Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville and Cairo, Connecting at Cincinnati with packets for all point 
above to Pittsburgh, and with all railroads running east. Capt. A. M. Halliday, 
Agent, S2 Gravier street. 

Ten fast, elegant and commodious passenger boats belonging to the Southern 
Transportation Line, ply regularly, since 1878, to Cincinnati, Evansville and Cairo, 
and connect with the packets that run to Pittsburgh and way landings beyond, 
Capt. A. M. Halliday, well known as the genial and popular master of the Paris C. 
Bro'M>i and other craft, is the agent for these boats since 1880. Specially constructed 
for dispatch in the handling of freight, rates are given thereon highly favorable to the 
producers of the river country', as well as to shippers of merchandise from the cities and 
towns. Capt. Halliday has been in one position of responsibility or another, engaged 
as a principal in the river traffic, for over twentv years, and is universally acknowledged 
to be a man who knows his business and attends to it. Through rates are given and 
Bills of Lading issued from the office of the line at 82 Gravier (or on board the 
steamers) signed over the principal railroads leading to all interior points, east, north, 
and west. The boats owned by this line are the Mary Houston, R. R. Springer, 
Guiding Star, Thorias Sherlock, Golden Rule, Golden City, Golden Crown, Paris C. 
Broxvn, U. P. Schenck, and Wyoming, all large, swift and comfortable steamers. Two 
■of these boats leave New Orleans each week. This line is so thoroughly established 
that to say it is successful seems an unnecessary assurance. 



76 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



H. DUDLEY COLEMAN. 

Foundry and Plantation Machinery: Foundry and Machine Sliops, Erato, from Magnolia to Clara 
streets; Office and Depot, No g Perdido street. 

The finest and presumably the largest machine works in the South, and, for that 
raatter, fairly to be compared with any abroad, are those whore characteristics are briefly 
delineated in this sketch. They were first established in the year 1S50, on their present 




location, by Willis P. Coleman, the father of the present public-minded and active pro- 
prietor. The circumstances attending their foundation were not striking, a moderate 
patronage only attending the first efforts of the concern. It was not long, however, be- 
fore the high quality and enterprise of the institution began to be noted. Constant 



The Industries of New Orleans. 77 

additions to the place were made from that time on, and the latest mechanical accessories 
were added, vintil now the works have the finest and most complete of plants. The 
lathes, forging machinery, moulding shops, etc., ai-e on a scale commensurate with the 
size and breadth of the operations to be performed. The immense engine which runs 
■all the apparatus in use, was made by the Works. It is a fine and elaborate piece of 
mechanism. Among other manufactures of these magnificent shops may be mentioned 
Steam Engines, Boilers, Pumps, Pulleys, Shafting, Corn Mills, House Fronts and Col- 
umns, Saw Mills, Sugar Mills, Gearings and Heavy Forgings. Complete Gin Outfits 
are a specialty. The "Maid of the South" Grist Mill, Coleman's Simple-Sci-ew Cotton 
Press and Coleman's Friction-Geared Cotton Press, are favorites of this market. In 
addition to his large manufacturing affairs, Mr. Coleman is the resident representativef 
of the following great factories, and is agent for the sale of their wares in this section: 

Watertown Steam Engine Co., Watertown, N. Y. ; Atlas Engine Works, Indianapo- 
lis, Ind.; T. M. Nagle, Erie, Pa.; Erie City Iron Works, Erie, Pa.; Porter Manufac- 
turing Co., Syracuse, N. Y. ; Kingsland & Ferguson Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, Mo.; 
Medart Parent Pulley Co., St. Louis, Mo. ; Brown Cotton Gin Co., New London, Conn.; 
'Gullett Cotton Gin Co., Amite City, La.; Brennan & Co., Louisville, Ky. ; Gardner 
•Governor Co., Quincy, 111.; M. Schulz, Cincinnati, O.; Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing 
•Co., New York City; Walker Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, O.; H. B. Bigelow & Co., 
New Haven, Conn.; Hoopes & Townsend, Philadelphia, Pa.; H. H. Collins, Brooklyn, 
N. Y.; Pulsometer Steam Pump Co., New York City; the Tanite Co., Stroudsburgh, 
Pa., and numerous others. 

From the long list of these concerns, which are the heaviest in the country, and 
which have confided to the proprietor of these works their interests in this viginity, some 
idea of the vast business of his house n:iay be obtained. The personal history of this 
■distinguished manufacturer is highly creditable. He was born here, was raised to the 
business which he now controls, and succeeded to it on his father's decease in iS6S. For 
a short period his brother held an interest, but since March, 18S4, Mr. Coleman has had 
■entire and exclusive ownership. He is a man of great energy and liberal to a fault, as 
his hundred and fifty employes and thousands of customers will bear testimony to. 
Current rumor credits him with one of the largest individual donations made to the 
Exposition Funds. With modesty characteristic of strong mind, Mr. Coleman desii-es 
no mention of that, neverthele-s it is a noticeable fact. Doubtless, at the final outcome 
of the events of the Cotton Centennial, his influential and indefatigable assistance to . 
the project, i-endei"ed altogether gratuitously, will be fittingly remarked, and a proper 
recognition be made of his many senices for the advancement of his city and of the South. 

THE KENTUCKY COTTON PRESS. 

Edward Keenan and Ansey L. Slawson, Proprietors; Corner of Tchoupitculas and Terpsichore streets. 

In 18S0, Keenan & Slawson, the proprietors, following the march of improvements, 
remodeled the old Kentucky Press, and put into it one of Steer's c'elebrated Morse 90 
inch cylinder compresses. The capacity and facilities of the concern were iinmensely 
increased by this change, and the cotton traders were not slow in showing their appre- 
ciation of this enterprise by an increased patronage. This is now one of the very larg- 
est institutions of the sort in the cotton growing South, as it certainly is the most con- 
venient and accommodating for this section. It covers two whole squares of ground, 
■the yards being numbered 1 and 2, and having storage capacit}' for the year of 103,000 
bales of cotton. It employs 75 men and pays out $1,500 a week in wages alone. The 
■great 90 inch cylinder compress will compress loo bales an hour. 

Every precaution has been taken to insure the premises against fire. Fire plugs 
have been put up in each yard. Sufficient hose is attached to them to reach all over 
the yard and sheds. The water supply has been perfected. A "Collins Sr." patent 
■clock registers the watchman's rounds, so that they must be made every fifteen minutes. 
The office is connected by telephone with the Cotton Exchange and all principal points 
in the city. An order box is at the Exchange. 

The extraordinary interest awakened in all branches of the cotton trade by the Cen- 
tennial Exposition, has attracted every person of importance connected with this great 
Southern interest, toward this point of shipment. Whatever facilities over other cot- 
ton centres New Orleans possesses, are the result of the energies of those who suggested 
and assisted the great display of the Southern staple and the illustration of Southern 
progress whicn the world has been invited to view. Amongst those who are entitled to 
share in the credit of the magnificent World's Fair, the gentlemanly and astute proprie- 
tors of the Kentucky Press must be admitted to a place. Realizing the importance of 
the event and its direct bearing on their own concerns, they have contributed gener- 
ously out of their means and encouraged others by their example to take part in it. 
They have thus displayed a commendable public spirit that will not readily be forgotten. 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 




J. P. SARRAZIN'S SON & CO. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers and Manuhictiirers of Cliewing and Smoking Tobacco, Snuff CigarSr 

etc. : Store and Tobacco Factory, 91 and 93 Chartres Street, corner Conti ; Branch and Belle o^ 

Orleans Cigar Factory, 66 to 72 Poydras, cor. Tchoupitoulas ; Leaf Warehouse, 69 Conti st. 

The house of Sarrazin's Son 



& Co., Avidelv known as the largest 
engaged in this city in the manu- 
facture and sale of tobacco and 
cigars, was founded fortj-two j-ears 
ago by J. P. Sarrazin, whose succes- 
sors the present firm, composed of 
J. Rene Sarrazin, Chas Vatinel 
and J. Stans. Landry, is. The 
premises occupied are described 
in the headlines to this article. 
The factories are equipped with 
all the latest modern improved 
machinery and appliances requi- 
site to a successful and economic 
prosecution of the business. The 
reputation of the house for man- 
ufacturing onlv first-class goods is 
second to none, nearly half a 
century having been spent in earn- 
ing that character. The establish- 
ment employs over 300 hands, 
keeps numerous traveling salesmen on the road, and distributes its goods throughout 
every State in the Union. Leaf tobacco, fin^-cut, chewing and smoking tobaccos, 
smokers' artices of every description, snuff and cigars, are the principal articles export- 
ed by the firm. 

An exhaustive and most interesting article might be written descriptive of the vari- 
ous operations at the factories of this vast establishment. Suffice it to say that in all 
probability there are none of such extent outside of the great city of New York, and it 
is doubtful if an^^ there will rival them. The various brands dealt in by the house are 
widely and justly celebrated. In the manufacture of the finer grades of cigars they 
take especial pride, importing therefor their own leaf. The manufacture of lowergrade 
cigars is also made a special feature of the business, and is necessary in order to sup- 
ply the demand abroad for superior and pure low-classed goods. Sarrazin's Son & Co. 
also deal in leaf tobacco of the finest quality, supplying from this branch of their house 
a most extensive trade. As they sell only the very best manufactured goods, so also 
they offer none but the most superior and reliable leaf. The members of the firm of 
J. P. Sarrazin's Son & Co., are known everywhere throughout the United States as men 
of the highest business integrity and personal honor. A forty years' record cannot be 
gainsaid. 

J. E. AUVRAY. 

Mississippi Iron Coffee Warehouses : Fulton, between Julia and St. Joseph streets; Office, 175 Fiont street. 

The largest storage warehouses here (in accordance with the magnitude of trade) are 
devoted to the use of the New Orleans importers of coffee exclusively. These are the fine 
buildings on Fulton street, near Julia, covering two-thirds of the entire block. 
They are thoroughly fire-proof, and, having been built but recently (1857), are in the 
most complete order for all purposes. On an average they carry 4,000,000 pounds of 
coffee all through the year. They are provided with every facility and protection 
against loss or damage, risks thus being reduced to the minimum. Mr. Auvray was a 
member of the firm of J. O. Landrj' & Co. Me continued the business upon their dissolu- 
tion. He is a native of New Orleans and has the ad\'antage over others of a life-long 
experience in his business. He is an agreeable, clever and spirited man of affairs, and 
having solid investments outside of his warehouse interests in the city, is set down as a 
representative of his class, the substantial and solid citizens of the city, who, when 
engaged or interested in any public service, give it the same consideration they would 
their own concerns. This is most evident in the encouragement he has privately and 
publicly given the Exposition project. 

It is contemplated in the near future to extend these warehouse buildings so as tc^ 
make them one-half larger than at present, thus proportionately increasing their storage 
capacity. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 79 

A. A. WOODS. 

General Insurance Agency: No. 194 Gravier street. 
COMPANIES. ASSETS. 

Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York $53,000,000 

Scottish Union and National, of Edinburg (Fire) 33)636,835 

Royal, of Liverpool (Fire) 25,982,206 

Commercial Union, of London (Fire) 1 1, 250,000' 

Queen, of Liverpool and London (Fire) io,ooo,ooO' 

New York Underwriters' Agency (Fire) 3,500,000' 

Germania, of New York (Fire) 3,000,000 

Merchants' Insurance Companj^, of New Jersey (Fire) 1,164,171 

California Insurance Company (Fire) 1,000,000 

Union Insurance Company, Philadelphia (River Insurance) 1,519,561 

Louisville Underwriters' (River Insurance) 735,494 

Total Capital Represented $ 144,788,267 

A. A. Woods was established as an Agent for Foreign and Eastern Insurance Com- 
panies in the year 186S. As ma}' be seen in the above list, he represents in New Orleans 
and vicinity some of the foremost corporations engaged in the issuance of policies, and 
the taking of risks. Although much of the patronage acquired by him in the State of 
Louisiana has come to him for personal reasons, a large part of the favoritism to the 
office at 194 Gravier street is undoubtedly because the companies for whom he transacts 
business are the strongest of the home, and the safest of the foreign establishments. A 
glance at the headlines in which their assets are quoted shows clearly what progi-ess has 
been made in the undei-writing profession as well as it does the tremendous strength of 
many of the great companies. 

The Equitable Life Assurance Society, of New York, has the largest surplus of any 
life company in the world — $13,000,000. It has not a contested claim upon its books. 
The foreign fire corripanies as evei-ybody is aware, are conducted with the most scrupu- 
lous conservatism, but are well-regulated by the sti-ingent laws of Great Britain, which, 
however, it must be admitted, are not more binding than the enactments now in force 
in many of the older States. Woods' Agency represents no companies that are not en- 
tirely reliable and thoroughly secure, whatever the disaster that may overtake the gen- 
eral public, be it fire or pestilence. 

Mr. Wood especially invites risks upon dwellings and furniture. Losses paid in New 
Oi-leans. 

THE SHIPPERS' COTTON PRESS AND YARDS. 

Boyd & Herrick, Proprietors: Corner of Peters and Henderson streets. 

Established in 1S44, '^his convenient and efficient accessory to the cotton traffic of 
this port, has been enlarged greatly over its original area. It now covers three squares 
of land, and has an actual storage capacity (room under cover) of 40,000 bales. Its 
claim to the title of the largest Southern Press is therefore well warranted. Ninety 
Avorkmen and laborers find employment within its premises — a force that is also an indi- 
cation of superior facilities and accommodations to the ti-ade. Its 75-inch Tyler Press 
can be worked up to a capacity of 1,000 bales a day. 

Sam. Boyd and Richard Herrick, the proprietors of this press, are citizens of some 
note in the community aside from the cotton industry. Mr. Boj'd is prominent also as 
a director of the New Orleans Pacific Railway. Mr. Herrick is a director of the Hiber- 
nia Insurance Company, of New Orleans, as well as one of the Board of the New 
Oiieans Cotton Press Association. Mr. Boyd has lived here for forty-five years, Mr. 
Herrick thirty, and both have therefore considerably more than a mere sympathy with 
the progress and advancement of the city and its coinmercial affairs. Realizing the im- 
portance to this vicinity of the great World's Fair, they were among the first to urge its 
feasibility, and have been steadfast assistants of the good work in that behalf. Mean- 
while, although thus identified with public affairs, they do not neglect their own con- 
cerns, but are considerate of the trusts confided to them by their patrons, and are de- 
voted to expediting the immediate business of the Press, which they have furnished with 
all the most modern appliances and accessories of the traffic. Personally they, have 
many claims to recognition as representatives of one branch of the cotton interests, and 
they are regarded, in all events, as upright, clever and thorough gentlemen. 

Messrs. Boyd & Herrick are also proprietors of the Pelican and Amelia Presses, 
situated on St. Andrew, St. Mary, Tchoupitoulas and Religious streets. Their joint 
storage capacity is 35,000 bales, and compressing capacity 2,000 bales per day. The 
Amelia is one of the largest presses ever built. Together they employ about 150 men. 
Boyd & Herrick's P. O. address is Box 902. 




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YALE & BOWLING. 

Wholesale Dry Goods and Notions, 17 to 21 Magazine and 8S Common. 

Since 1840, when this house first ventvired into commercial life, there have been 
many changes in the designation of the establishment, but the trade and patronage have 
steadfastly stayed with the old house, whatever its location or title. Cyrvis Yale, of New 
York City, and Joseph Bowling, of New Orleans, are the present proprietors. In the 
fancy goods line this house carries the most complete and best assorted stock, without 
exception, south of Chicago, but the specialty of this establishment is its full line of 
.heavy staple and domestic dry goods manufactured in and around New Orleans, in such 
quantities, and by means of peculiarly advantageous facilities, so that the goods can be 
sold in this market cheaper than any other stock. Besides its own manufactures, the 
house sells largely of fine fancy dress goods, Yankee notions, novelties of all sorts, gen- 
tlemen's furnishing goods, white goods of every variety, shawls, cloaks, rubber clothing, 
etc., all imported from the fountain heads of manufacture and distribution in Europe 
and the Eastern cities. These goods are of the newest and latest styles and designs, 
and being bought upon terms only to be obtained by having particular connection with 
the first hands, are presented to the trade upon exceedingly low margins. 

The aggregate sales of this house are immense. Its shipments extend everywhere 
■North, East and West of this point and even into Mexico and Central America. 
Throughout all its long and useful career this house has maintained the prestige acquired 
in its earlier years, strict integrity, thorough business habits, and sound principles char- 
acterizing its management at all times. As one of the establishments whose conduct 
has elevated the commercial standard of the Crescent City, and contributed to the credit 
of the whole community, it is entitled to conspicuous mention in a work like this. 
Parties at a distance desiring the advantages to be derived from dealing with a first-class 
house, can rest assured that this one is amply prepared, by reason of its capital and am- 
ple resources, for any emergency of the Southern and Southwestern trade, and that it is 
•eminently trustworty in all particulars. 

S. DALSHEIMER &, CO. 

t Notions, 76 and 7S Canal street. 

Dalsheimer & Co. were established in 1S63, the firm name then being N. Dals- 
heimer & Co. S. Dalsheimer and S. E. Worms are the present partners in the house. 
This live and energetic concern has lately removed to numbers 76 and 78 Canal street, 
Avhich has been reconstructed especially for the use of the firm, and they have now all 
the conveniences for the facilitation of business. 

Few of the business houses in this line of trade can advance so many claims for the 
public favor as the firm of S. Dalsheimer & Co. It has had a creditable history as well 
as a most prosperous career of twenty-one years. Statistics show that the average life 
•of a wholesale house is less than ten years. One that survives twice that length of time 
■can well be credited with good management. 

The removal spoken of above was necessitated by the pressure on the sales depart- 
ments of the house. A larger stock will now be carried and many minor inconveniences 
of the traffic discontinued. The term Notions, as used in the trade, is so comprehensive 
as almost to include the whole range of human desires. Certainly a stroll through the 
large double building in which this firm is located, 70x120 feet in size, would impress a 
person with that idea. Messrs. Dalsheimer and Worms are worthy representatives of a 
'Class of merchants whose success is due, not to speculation and that sort of thing, but to 
their own legitimate efforts. 

This firm makes a specialty of Gents' Furnishing Goods and'have an entire floor of 
Ihe building devoted to that branch of their business. 

BASSETTI & XIQUES. 

Importers of Wines, Cognacs, Gins, Rums, Scotch and Irish Whiskies, also Vermouth, etc. : 67 and 69 

Decatur street. 

U. Marinoni was the founder of this house. He was a distinguished merchant in 
liis day, and was the proprietor of this concern from 1850 to 1S78, the firm of Bassetti & 
Xiques then succeeding him. No liquor house of the city has a better reputation than 
this one, both with respect to its credit, capital, resources and transactions, as well 
as for the grade of importations which it handles. It holds the agencies for some of the 
strongest and best foreign houses, among these : 

Laboure Gontard, Clos de Vougeot Mousseux, Nuits, Cote d'Or; E. Gregoire & 
•Co., Cognacs, Angouleme; Comandon & Co., Cognacs, Jarnac; P. & E. Rudelle, Fine 



82 The Industries of New Orleans. 

Wines in Cases, Bordeaux; Chas. Bernard, Burgundy Wines, Beaune, Cote d'Or; L. P.. 
Baron, Clarets, Bordeaux; Coutreau Fils, Clarets, Branne; Feyret & Pinsan, 01i\e OiJ^ 
Bordeaux; J. Fiton, Aine & Co., iyimentary Preserves; Ihlers & Bell, Bass' Ale and 
Guiness' Porter, Liverpool. 

It is also a direct importer of : Plagniol Olive Oil; Noilly, Prat, \'ermouth, Muscat 
and Cassis; Martini Rossi Vermouth; Ed. Pernod, Absinthe and Kirshwasser, Benedic- 
tine Chartreuse; Henke's Gin; Sir Robert Burnett Old Tom Gin; Fernet Branca, An- 
gostura Bitters; Italian Paste; Olives; Italian and Castile, Soaps; French and German 
Vinegar; Brandy Fruits, etc.; Cordials, Maraschino, Curacao and Anisette. 

Messrs. Bassetti »& Xiques, as the resident representatives of these great European 
concerns, will attend to their interests at the Exposition, to which scheme, it may be 
remarked, they have contributed liberall3\ The trade of this house is principally with 
the South and West, but it also ships to West Indies and Mexico. Everywhere that it 
has transactions it is well regarded, and not without reason, for it is a splendid exam- 
ple of a hovise of the very best order. 

THE ALABAMA AND FACTORS' PRESS. 

Sawyer Hayward, Proprietor: Tchoupitoulas, Terpsichore, Robin and St. Thomas streets. 

The Consolidated Presses herein described, situated in adjoining squares, have 
each a history. The Factor's Press is one of the oldest in the vicinity of New Orleans. 
Prior to 1850, it was the Tobacco Shell Warehouse. In that year it was remodeled, ad- 
ditions were built to it, and it was made into a cotton press. It covers the entire block 
of ground bounded by the thoroughfares above mentioned. Its plant consists of one of 
the Morse powerful 94-inch compressors, capable of turning out Soo bales of cotton a 
day. A force of sixty men are required to satisfy the demands of the trade. The Fac- 
tors' press is thoroughly fire-proof. Its storage capacity is 15,000 bales. 

The Alabama Press was erected about thirty-two years ago. It is now used solely 
for storage purposes. Its capacitv is iS,ooo bales. Here also a sufficient force of men 
is retained to ensure perfect safety as regards destruction by fire. The .•system of fire 
service has been thoroughly perfected. There is an ample water supply, pumps, fire 
plugs and hose throughout the yard and sheds. The combined Presses handle about 
150,000 bales a year. 

Mr. Hayward has operated the establishment on his own account for some eighteen 
or twenty years. He is a British subject, but has been domiciled so long in New Or- 
leans as to have strong local attachments, large business interests, and the general wel- 
fare of the commiuiity at heart. Accordingly, recognizing the importance of the great 
Cotton Exposition and its probable effect upon the trade, he has unostentatiously fur- 
thered the project and contributed his influence for the common good. By his asso- 
ciates of the Cottort industry he is regarded as a gentleman of high character, with 
thorough commercial interests, ample pecuniary resources, and great influence with, 
foreign consumere of the staple product of this section. 

THE INTERNATIONAL COTTON PRESS CO. 

A. J. Landauer, President; C. J. Meyer,,Vice-president ; S. S. Eiseman, Man;iger: South Peters, Calli- 
ope, Gaienne and Erato streets. 

The buildings now occupied for the purposes indicated in the above headlines, were 
erected in 1867, and were formerly known as the International Press. About two years 
ago the management was changed to the present style, the International Cotton Press 
Company assuming the proprietorship. The premises are extraordinarily extensive, 
fom- whole blocks of ground being included in the property. The company has a wide 
patronage and it finds use for two hydraulic and steam compresses, a pattern of ma- 
chinery only in use at their establishment. These are powerful apparatus. They re- 
quire far less fuel than other steam compresses, and can easily compress 1,000 bales a. 
day. The storage capacity of the place is 25,000 bales. The sheds and stores are all 
fire-proof and have the most complete extinguishing arrangements and water supply of 
any presses here located. 

Manager Meyer is a brother of the well known Cotton Factors, V. & A. Meyer, one 
of the heavy firms of New Orleans in that line. He is thoroughly conversant with all 
the details of his business, and has devoted much time to increasing the efficiency of 
the press which he supervises. His efforts have been principally directed to secure ex- 
pedition and entire safety as regards fire and other risks in the handling of the staple 
committed to his charge, and in retaining the present moderate schedule of rates. The 
interests and responsibilities confided to him by the International corporation are in* 
safe hands. He is a diligent, competent and courteous official. 



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JOHN ZUCCA. 



lobber and Broker in Fruit and Commission Merchant: No. lo Canal street, corner of Front (P. O. Box 

The merchant whose name heads this account transacts a general commission busi- 
ness, but he buys mostly for outside firms. The handling of oranges and lemons has 
been made bv him a special feature of his transactions. That his judgment for the se- 
lection of these perishable commodities is excellent is shown by the confidence with 
which relations have been maintained with him by customers and puixhasers. <-on- 
signments, advances and like operations of the pro'duce market made with him, maybe 
relied upon to be strictly business-like, advantageous and reliable. 

THE STATE NATIONAL BANK- 

President Samuel H. Kennedy; Vice President, Pierre Lanaux; T. R. Roach, Cashier; 
W. P. Nicholls, Ass't Cashier, 31 and 33 Camp street. 




The State National Bank, the fiscal agents of the Slate of Louisiana, was first 
chartered in 1818 as a state bank, and is therefore the oldest institution of its kind in- 
New Orleans. In 187 1 it was nationalized. Its capital, as may be seen from the re- 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 



port of its conditional the close of the season ending, June 30th 1S84, is $425,000; sur- 
plus fund nearly as much, circulation $325,000, undi\ided profits, $99,881 21, a remarka- 
ble showing. 

RESOURCES. 

Loans and Discounts $1,201,169 5^ 

U. S. Bonds, par value 425,000 00 

Other Bonds, Stocks and Securities 218,907 72 

Real Estate 171,620 20 

Five per cent. Redemption Fund i9>i-5 00 

Premiums paid on U, S. Bonds 46,209 02 

Current Expenses and Taxes Paid 36,562 07 

Demand Loans $466,375 71 

Exchange 1 19,858 28 

Cash, including Checks on other Banks 584,033 62 

1,170,267 61 

$3,288,861 18 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital Stock $ 425,000 00 

Surplus Fund 325,000 00 

Circulation 376,000 00 

Undivided Profits 99,88121 

Dividends Unpaid 12,801 54 

Due Banks and Bankers $ 175,698 59 

Due other Depositors i ,874,479 S4 

2,050,17843 

$3,288,861 18 

This bank is officered, besides the managers above named, bv the following di- 
rectors: Sam'l II. Kennedy, Alfred Moulton, Julius Vairin, Frank Kennedy, Joseph 
L. Harris, Pierre Lanaux, John B. Vinet. 

This bank deals largely in foreign and domestic exchange. Its London corre- 
spondent is the London Joint Stock Bank, its Paris correspondent, the Societe General 
Paris. The State National also represents "the American Exchange in Europe," 
(Henry F. Gillig, Manager). Its New York correspondents are the Bank of New 
York, N. B. A., and the National Bank and Chemical National Bank. By means of 
its connections, traveler's credits, circiilar drafts and notes, etc., are issued available 
throughout the world. Money may be transferred by cable, and collections made at 
home and abroad. This institution has assisted with its accommodation many of the 
greatest commercial and manufacturing enterprises of this vicinitv, thus contributing 
to the advancement and de\elopment, not only of New Orleans and Louisiana, but of 
the whole great Southern belt. 

MACHECA BROS. 

Importers and Wholesalers of Tropical, Mediterranean and Domestic Fruits ; Managing owners of the 
New Orleans and Belize Royal Mail S. S. Co: 129 Decatur st. 

The house now known as Macheca Bros., has been for sixty years a conspicuous 
one in New Orleans. Founded by Jos. Macheca, Sr., the spirit, intelligence and activ- 
ity of its first proprietor seems to have descended to his sons and successors, John and 
Michel. This is a firm that carries a stock of California's fine fruits continually. It 
was about the first house to open up a market in the far north for tropical fruits, exchang- 
ing with Iowa, Minnesota and the Northwest region, the products of the tropics for the 
luxuries of the temperate clime. If not the oldest fruit house in the South, it certain- 
ly is the oldest in New Orleans. The brothers Macheca have been in the fruit line all 
their lives; so also had been their estimable parent. He came here when a mere boy and by 
thrift, prudence and business tact, succeeded in laying broad and deep, the foundations 
of a great mercantile establishment. The New Orleans Fruit Importing Company is 
managed by them. Its specialties are Sicilian lemons, oranges, etc., and Mediterranean 
luxuries. Macheca Bros, ^re the largest shippers of Louisiana oranges to the north and 
west of this point. 

The vessels of the New Orleans and Belize Royal Mail S. S. Co. plying to Belize, 
Livingston, Guatemala, Port Barrios, Puerto Cortez, Spanish Honduras, Isabel and 



The Industries of New Orleans. 85 

Panzos, and for which Macheca Bros, are the agents and owners, are the American- 
built vessels, City of Dallas, Reed, master, and the Wanderer, Captain Clark. Ma- 
checa Bros, are under contract to carry the English mails hy these vessels. Through 
Bills of Lading are issued from 129 Decatur street, or hy the sub-agencies, to or from 
any of the above ports, and to New York, London and the Continent. Passage rea- 
sonable with fine accommodations. No freight received on sailing days. 

This line is seven years old. General merchandise is sent out by it; fruit, coffee, 
rubber, hides, sarsaparilla, mahogany, Spanish cedar, and all the tropical products re- 
turned. The boats run on British Government Schedule-time, steamers leaving New 
Orleans every 9th and 12th day alternately (i. e., 4th, i6th, 25th, and 6th, and so on.) 
Following are the foreign agents of the line: John Hunter, Belize; Anderson & Owen, 
Livingston^ W. C. Mirrielees, Puerto Cortes. 

Connecting Lines: In New York; Office of Morgan Steamship Line, Pier 36, North 
River, and Office of Cromwell Steamship Line, 86 West Street. In Livingston, Guate- 
mala; Steamer Georgia Muncy, for Isabal, Panzos and Gulf of Dulce. In Puerto Cortes, 
Spanish Honduras; Interoceanic Railway, for San Pedro Sula and Interior. In New 
Orleans, Morgan and Cromwell Steamship Lines for New York; Compagnie Commer- 
ciale de Transports a Vapeur Franpaise for Havre. 

S. O. THOMAS & CO. 

Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants: ^8 Perdido street. 

This house, one of the strongest and busiest on 'Change, is the successor to the 
well krtown firm of D. R. Carroll & Co., which was established so far back as 1842, and 
which always during its existence maintained an unimpeachable reputation. The gen- 
tlemen now conducting the affairs of the house have long been identified with the Cot- 
ton Traffic. As prominent members of the Exchange, the volume and character of 
their transactions has always a perceptible effect upon the market, influencing the 
prices and movements as the operations of few other houses can. Mr. Thomas, the sen- 
ior member of the house, is on the Exchange's Committee on Cotton Exhibit at the 
Centennial Exposition, having been chosen for that especially, because he is an author- 
ity in such matters. The house has thus been brought into close relations with the 
Exposition management and considerably more service and assistance has therefore been 
expected of it than of the ordinary concerns in behalf of the great Southern display. 
The contributions, both of time and money for the benefit of the project, made by It, 
have not been meagre, and all the wide-spread connections of the house have been en- 
listed in the work. For this it deserves the highest praise. 

S. O. Thomas & Co., like their predecessors, have ample facilities, capital and re- 
sources for the prosecution of concerns of breadth. In their advances upon consign- 
ments, commissions and other charges, they have invari-ably shown liberality towards 
the producers and shippers dealing with them. Firmly established and eminently sound>. 
their standing at home and abroad is particularly high. 

THE VIRGINIA AND MISSISSIPPI PRESSES. 

Lewis & Lynd, Proprietors : Tchoupitoulas between Richard and Market streets. 

The combined Virginia and Mississippi Cotton Presses cover two and a half blocks- 
of land. They were first established in the ye^x 1867, and are thei-efore built upon the 
most recent and improved plans for such institutions. They contain room enough to 
store 27,000 bales of the staple easily, and more on a pinch. The 78-inch Tyler Com- 
press with which they are equipped has a capacity for 1,000 bales per day. They give 
steady employment to a force of fifty men and are an accommodation to the cotton' 
trade of this section, unsurpassed in general and special facilities by any in this vicinity, 
absolutely safe as regards storage risks fi-om fire, etc., and unexcelled with respect to 
expedition in the handling of the product left in their care. 

The firm of Lewis «& Lynd consists of R. N.Lewis, Wm. Lynd,.Sr., and Wm. Lynd,, 
Jr. The elder Lynd has an identity of his own, not alone in the cotton business, but in 
other public affairs. He was at one time a dii-ector of the Claiborne Street Railway, and' 
with his associates of the Virginia and Mississippi Press, is now considerably interested 
in the conduct and success of the Exposition, to which, as a contributor, he has added, 
his weight and influence. He and his partners have always, during their management, 
shown a disposition to assist the Trade by every possible means, and patrons of their 
concern enjoy special privileges. The P. O. address of these presses is Box 1857. Tel- 
ephone connection with the Cotton Exchange is maintained.. 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 



THE NEW ORLEANS CANAL AND BANKING CO. 

J. C. Morris, President; Edward Toby, Cashier; J. B. Montreiul, Ass't Cashier: corner of Camp and 

Gravier Streets. 

This institution, popularly known as the "Canal Bank," was incorporated March 
5,1851, by State charter, and has therefore fifty-tour years of successful operation to 
recommend it. It has for its correspondents. 

The National City Bank, New York. Boatmen's Sayings Bank, St. Louis. 

National Bank of Commerce, New York. Bank of Commerce, St. Louis. 

Merchants National Bank, Boston. Britton & Koontz, Natchez. 

And responsible connections at all other business centers. 

The directors of this sterling and representatiye institution are: I. II. Stauffer, of 
Stauffer, Macready cSf Co.; E.J. Hart, of E. J. Hart & Co.; W. B. Schmidt, 6t Schmidt 
& Ziegler; A. H. May, of Richardson & May; J. B. Lallande, Commission Merchant; 
and the President of the Bank, J. C. Morris. 




From the last quarterly statement of the bank, dated July 3d of the year 1SS4, which 
is here republished, it appears that its paid up capital is $1,000,000, and" that its surplus 
is $200,000. 

RESOURCES. 

Real Estate $ 102,800 00 

Invested in Bonds and Stocks 51)95° 0° 

Loans on Mortgage, maturing after ninety days $309,390 51 

Loans and Discounts, maturing after ninety days 449,288 08 

Loans and Discounts, maturing within ninety days 956,674 19 — 1,715,352 78 

Suspended paper valued i7)3-S 87 

Foreign Exchange in suspense 5)3-° 7^ 

Loans on demand 595'3^7 66 

Sight Exchange $160,784 23 

Coin, Currency and Checks for Clearing House 

Exchanges" 858,359 30—1,019,143 53—1,614,461 19 

Total $3)507.213 56 



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LIABILITIES. 

Capital Stock paid in $1,000,000 00 

Surplus 200,000 00 

Undivided Profits 12,950 20 

Dividends Unpaid 28,348 47 

Deposits subject to check 2,240,280 08 

Circulation 8,617 50 

Due to Banks 16,917 30 

Total $3,507,213 56 

THE HOPE INSURANCE COMPANY. 

J. A. Chalaron, President; Maurice Stern, Vice President; Louis Barnett, Secretary: Office, i88 Oravier 
Street, opposite the Cotton Exchang-e. 

The Hope Insvu-ance Company was established in New Orleans in the year 1857, its 
articles of incorporation giving it an existence of twenty-five years. In 1882, it became 
necessary, therefore, to re-incorporate, and this was done with the following changes: 
The capital stock was increased to $250,000. The real value of its assets then being 
$128,000, an additional $122,000 subscription was opened, and such was the confidence 
of moneyed people in the institution, that it was taken up immediately. The Directors 
of this company are John I. Adams, Henry Beer, Maurice Stern, G. Lehmann, A. J. 
<Jomila, Victor Meyer, F. M. Ziegler, A. R. Brousseau, Jas. A. Renshaw, John Holmes, 
J. A. Chalaron, B. F. Bengston, Pearl Wight, Pierre Poiitz, Geo. Denegre, all of whom 
are highly esteemed in the world of commerce and finance. Under their guidance and 
control the business, both of stockholders and insurers has been wisely and ably man- 
aged. All losses are paid or settled promptly, litigation, as a useless and costly expedi- 
ent, being avoided as much as possible. The management is exceedingly particular 
•concerning the risks it assumes, and having the whole South, as well as the home com- 
munity to choose from, takes only the safest and most desirable. The business is in 
fire, marine and river risks, principally the former. Having extensive connections with 
all parts of the country by means of selected and responsible correspondents, this is 
one of the most useful institutions of New Orleans, and a reliable stay to those who 
depend upon it. It is in every sense a worthy representative of the city's coinmercial 
and financial supremacy. 

The business of this company has been three-fold greater for the year ending 1884, 
than for the year preceding, showing $343,996.27 against $113,046.10. Its assets are 
$372,089.65, against $293,852.49 in the previous year. A dividend of ten per cent, was 
paid to stockholders, and a large reserve fund, amounting to $83,989.25, has been set 
aside. 

ALFRED MOULTON & CO. 

Agents for the Cromwell Steamship Line for New York direct: Office, 41 Carondelet street. New Orleans ; 

Pier 9, North River, New York. 

The Cromwell Steamship Line has the reputation, both here and in New York 
City, which are its home ports, of having the fastest boats running between these points. 

The following first-class iron steamships compose this line; Louisiana, Hudson, 
Knickerbocker, New Orleans. One of the above steamships is appointed to sail from 
New Orleans for New York, direct, every Wednesday at 8 A. m., from the Cromwell 
Steamship Line landing, head of St. Louis street. They have unsurpassed accommo- 
dations for passengers. Cabin passage. New Orleans to New York, including meals and 
berth, is $40,00; Steerage passage. New Orleans to New York, including meals and 
berth, $20,00. 

Alfred Moulton & Co. (A. Moulton and Alex. Harris), a house that has done busi- 
ness in New Orleans for thirty years under this or other designations equally well 
known, are the resident agents for this favorite line. The four steamers are from 1,400 
to 2,000 tons net carrying capacity. This is the only passenger line between here and 
New York, and its saloons and staterooms are sumptuously prepared for the accommo- 
dation of the traveling public. It is the oldest steam line running between New Orleans 
and the great metropolis, and notwithstanding its length of service, has never met with 
a serious accident or delay. 

These fine craft leave New Orleans at 8 A. m. on Wednesday of every week. Freight 
for Bremen, Havre and Liverpool is taken by this line, and through bills of lading given 
for the same. Insurance on cargoes, three-eighths of one per ceni.. Samuel H. Seaman 
is in charge of the New York office of the line, which gets its name from having been 
established by H. B. Cromwell & Co. This is by all odds the safest, most comfoi-table 
and reasonable route from henee to New York, 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 



CHAS. H.SCHENCK. 

Dealer and Importer in Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Nuts: No. 70 South Peters street and No. 3 

Common street, near Poydras. 

Particularly desening of mention, not only for energy and enterprise, but for the 
breadth of territory over which his house has dealings, is the reputable merchant whose 
business is located as above indicated. Throughout the North and West, as well as the 
Soutli, is it recognized as a representative establishment. Everything in the line of for- 
eign and domestic fruits and nuts is carried and handled in large quantities by him and 
it is conceded to be a sufficient recommendation and guarantee to say that goods were 
shipped by him. Particular attention is paid to filling the orders of commission houses, 
and in this direction an immense trade is done in all quarters. The house is deservedly 
a favorite on account of the scrupulous carefulness and promptness of its dealings, not 
alone with regular but with transient customers as well. 

LHOTE & COMPANY. 

The " Old Basin " Steam Sash, Door and Blind Factory and Lumber Yards: Office, corner of Franklin 

and Toulouse streets. 




The members of the Lhote family are proprietors of the planing mill and yards 
which bear their name, with George Lhote as the manager. This establishment was 
started some thirty-five years ago by the father of the present proprietors. He is now 
deceased. The factory and yards connected with this concern cover a great area, and 
employ fully seventy-five men. The trade is with all parts of the South and Southwest, 
having communication with New Orleans, together with a fair share of the local pat- 
ronage. The stock kept en hand or manufactured to order, includes: 

Glazed Sash, Ceiling, Blinds, Doors, Frames, Flooring, Moldings, Rough and 
Dressed Scantling, Base Boards, Weather Boards, Rustic, Feather Edging, Balusters, 
Rounds, Poles, Newels, Walnut, Scroll Work, Poplar, Ash and Mahogany. 

Intending purchasers are invited to send for estimates on wholesale orders for Sash, 
Doors, and Blinds. Address, P. 0.'Box30J5. Illustrated Catalogues mailed on Ap- 
plication. Branch office on Carondelet street, between Gravier and Union. 

_ As is well known the Lhotes have ample resources, and are thus enabled to have 
their business run on at all seasons, and to accommodate patrons as few other estab- 
lishments can. This one from its age, standing and general characteristics, is indeed a. 
representative house of New Orleans. 



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DOUGLAS WEST. 

General Insurance Agency, 2S Carondelet st. 

REPRESENTS 

INCORPORATED. CASH ASSETS. 

1797. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society of England $8,598,468 

1820. Guardian Assurance Company of London $19,9155,540 

1880. Fire Insurance Association of London $5,417,860 

1710. Sun Fire Office of London Unlimited 

Douglas West established himself in business in New Orleans in 1867, for the pur- 
pose of effecting insurance in first class companies and from any portion of this con- 
tinent. The offices of the agency, for Mr. West is the resident manager for the great 
corporations whose naines are in the head lines to this sketch, have always been in the 
neighborhood of the Cotton Exchange, 28 Carondelet street being their present loca- 
tion. A sufficient staff of clerks and solicitors is employed, all inquiries addressed to 
whom, concerning rates, conditions, rules, etc., will be courteously and promptly an- 
swered. The special lines to which the agency gives particular attention are the insur- 
ance of cotton, sugar, rice, merchandise and buildings. The only companies taking 
risks on plate glass are represented by this agency. Having unsurpassed facilities for 
placing risks in any part of the United States, the Canadas or the West Indies, West's 
Brokerage enjoys a widespread patronage. Applications forwarded to the office will 
be placed in companies satisfactory to the insurer or property owner. These applica- 
tions must give full forms and diagrams, state the highest rate paid, and give a list of 
the prominent companies carrying the risk. All losses are promptly adjusted and are 
paid in New Orleans. Liberal commissions, paid to agents and brokers, have brought 
to this agency a fine share of the interior patronage, sub-agencies having also been 
established. The interests of the companies cited in the beginning of this account 
under the vigilant management of Mr. West, have met with uniform progress. Iden- 
tified with the community as a resident, he has been careful, while advancing the busi- 
ness of these various companies, by all fair methods, to protect the insured also. 

Mr. West is ably assisted in his business by his competent and courteous neph- 
ew, Mr. John N. Conrad. 

G. W. DUNBAR'S SONS. 

Packers of Semi-Tropical Products ; Distillers of French Cordials and Manufacturers of Fruit Syrups • 
OflSce and salesroom, No. 3 Tchoupitoulas street. 

If anything indicates correctly the steady growth and extension of this great South- 
ern market, it is the certain prosperity that attends the efforts of those far seeing indi- 
viduals who are not afraid to venture their capital and resources in the development of 
those lines of industry that are founded upon the natural advantages of situation, etc. 
that the city enjoys. One of these enterprises at least, assisting as it does the general 
welfare, should receive its proper share of commendation; that one is the manufactur- 
ing institution which, considering its merits, is too briefly touched upon herein. 

■ In 1865, Geo. H. Dunbar, a most enterprising and spirited gentleman, began in a 
modest but still aspiring way, the business of canning semi-tropical products, such as 
Fresh Gulf Shrimp, Potted Shi-imp, Green Turtle, Preserved Figs, Orange Presei-ves, 
Figs in Cordial, Okra, etc, with the distillation of fine French Cordials and Fruit Syr 
ups as an accompanying industry. The concern now supplies a trade and patronage 
located all over the wide world. Geo. H. Dunbar and F. B. Dunbar, Geo. W. Dunbar's 
sons, that being the style adopted as the finn name in 1S7S, have now two canneries 
one on the River, the other on Bayou St. John. Their chief distributing points are the 
principal cities in England, France, Gennany, Spain, Mexico, and the United States. 
They have certainly the largest manufactory (cannery) of its kind in New Orleans, and 
in all probability in the district south of Baltimore. Their specialty is fresh Barataria 
shrimp, from the Mexican Gulf, sufficiently cooked for salads, mayonaise, and all cold 
dishes, and ready for the table. This preparation was awarded the silver medal of 
merit at the Paris Exposition of 1878, and also at the International Fisheries Exhibition 
London, 1883. Encouraged by their successes abroad, the house is making a grand 
displaj' of its prime goods at the present World's Fair, and will compete for the honors 
of award for general superiority. Both the gentlemen above mentioned as proprietors 
are natives of New Orleans and here were bred to their business, making this concern of 
theirs distinctly a home institution that should receive home pati-onage. Mr. Geo. H. 
Dunbar is sufficiently well esteemed to have been chosen as a director of the Southern 
Insurance Company. An examination of their exhibit at the great Fair will well repay 
-dealers and the trade. 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 



THE SOUTHERN INSURANCE COMPANY. 

Ernest Miltenberger, President; H. Gaily, Vice-President; Scott McGehee, Secretary : 31 Camp street. 

The Southern Insurance Company, of New Orleans— capital $300,000, assets $387,- 
94S.94 — issues^'policies covering " Fire, River and Marine Risks," at the lowest current 
rates; allows the customary cash rebate, and in addition distributes at the end of each 
fiscal year (31st December) one-halt of its profits among all the assured in the company, 
whether stockholders or not, pro rata on the net earned premiums of each. While 
offering these extremely liberal terms, the company is established on the most solid and 
conservative basis, and offers ample secm-ity to its assured, the capital stock being en- 
tirely unimpaired, and the charter providing for a reserve fund which cannot be touched 
except for the payment of losses. All losses are equitably adjusted and promptl}' paid. 

The directors of this companj' are all of them sufficiently well known in this com- 
munity to need no fiu'ther commendation. Although of recent establishment this com- 
panv has already displayed, in the adoption of a sound financial system, that it is in the 
hands of thorough-going underwriters. Whilst welcoming all the business of this 
vicinity that comes to it, it has, as its name implies, struck out into a field that covers 
far more territory. In fact, it has gone further, and its agencies are in every important 
city of the continent. It already bids fair soon to absorb a large portion of the patron- 
age possessed by non-progressive rivals. 

ELKIN &CO. 

Dealers in all kinds of Carpeting, Rugs, Oil Cloths, Upholsterers' Goods, etc., 100 Canal street. 

Louis Elkin, long since deceased, began the trade now carried on in carpets and 
upholstery from number 100 Canal street, in 1S54. Mrs. J. M. Elkin and F. Stringer, 
who is the active manager, succeeded to the business about seventeen years ago. Sit- 
uated on the inost prominent business thoroughfare of the city, this house occupies 
quarters, second in size to none of the neighboring mercantile establishments. It has, 
without exception, not only the largest, but the most expensi^•e stock in its line, of any 
New Orleans house. The magnificent variety of fine goods includes rugs, mattings, 
curtain damasks, lace curtains, window shades, plain and fancy, upholsterers articles- 
and household adornments of the very finest quality, and from the first cla«s of foreign 
and home manufacturers. Supplying a trade that is almost exclusive to it, spreading 
out over Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and Mexico, as it 
does, this house is well and favorably known, as much by its uniform and kindly treat- 
ment of patrons, as by the scope of its transactions. Amply prepared for all irregular- 
ities of the trade by reason of its capital and resources, this house, scales its prices in 
accordance with the times, proposing to do business, not tor to-day, nor for a season, 
but permanently, and constantlv. 

S. JAMISON'S SON. 

Dealer in Sugar Lime, Sulphur, Fire Brick and Building Materials ; Warehouse, yi Fulton and 109- 
Peters street; Office, 69 Carondelet street. 

Irwin Jamison, who is the sole agent for the celebrated Shelby County, Alabama 
lime, is the proprietor of the establishment at 69 Carondelet street, so well known to 
the business community by the above title. This house was established in 1S65 by the 
senior Jamison, who as Street Commissioner, member of the Citv Council, and a Lou- 
isiana Legislator, rendered public services, that are not yet forgotten, lie was nota- 
ble also in other affairs of a quasi-public nature, having been one of the founders as 
well as a director for years, of the Mechanics and Traders bank. President of the Me- 
chanics Association, and before the war, distinguished for his wealth and public spirit, 
He was a very old resident, having come to New Orleans about the vear 1830, and was 
one of the first to recognize the expansion of the city, by encouraging the building of 
additional conveniences for traffic and residence in the upper part of the same. 

His son maintains to a great degree, the prestige of the house, and has many of 
his father's energetic characteristics. The building trade is dependent to a marked ex- 
tent, on this sound and accommodating concern. As a heavy dealer in materials, many 
and varied building operations have been assisted by it. The principal merchandise in 
which the house has transactions, briefly enumerated, are; the celebrated Crescent Su- 
gar Lime, " Our Best" Sugar Lime, as well as all other kinds of the same. Building 
Lime, Cement, Roll Sulphur, Fire Brick, Plaster Paris, White Sand, Hair, Laths and 
Building materials generally. The Shelby Lime is nearly 99 per cent, lime, and is con- 
sidered the strongest and purest to be found in the United States. The kilns are in the 
county of the same name, in the State of Alabama. " Our Best " Sugar Lime is cer-- 
tainly the finest and most desirable for sugar making, as well as the most popular in. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



this and adjacent markets. The kilns are in Tennessee. An ample field for the sale 
of these materials is found in this state, in Texas and in Mississippi. Prices and 
terms of the house are extremely moderate. Mr. Irwin Jamison has conducted the 
business since the death of his father in iSSo. He is a man of high principle and care- 
ful methods, accurate and yet generous, dispatching his own and his patrons affairs 
with equal promptness and expedition. The house from its direct connection with the 
manufacturing and building industries, is a fine representative of tlie solid interests and 
advancement of the community. 

THE LOUISIANA NATIONAL BANK. 

Joseph H, Oglesb'', President; A. Luria, Cashier; 120 and 122 Common street. 

This bank -vas the first bank nationalized in New Orleans. It had been previous to 
that time incorporated under a State charter. It is now about twenty-five years old. 

Its directors are: Thomas L. Airey, Chas. Lanier, W. H. Matthews, John V. 
Moore, R. M. Walmsley, Louis Bush, Joseph H. Oglesby. 

Its capital is $1,000,000; surplus $200,000, and undivided profits $235,000. 




Following is its last published statement, acknowledged Dec. 31, by the cashier, 
A. Luria: 

RESOURCES . 

Bills discounted $1,529,802 61 

Demand loans 513,051 75 — $2,042,854 36 

United States bonds, par value 900,000 00 

Other bonds and securities 36,050 00 

Bankiug house and other real estate 162,526 43 

United States Treasurer $ 40,000 00 

Due f i-om banks and bankers 38,597 46 

Domestic exchange 394,888 12 

Cash 862,074 59 

Checks for Clearing House 3^8,076 38 — 1,683,636 55 

Total $4,825,067 34 



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LIABILITIES. 

Capital stock paid in $ 1,000,000 00 

Surplus tund • • • 200,000 00 

Undivided profits I90>71 1 S3 

National Bank notes outstanding 799,950 00 

Dividends unpaid 160 00 

Individual deposits subject to check $ 2,293,850 53 

Due banks and bankers 340>394 9S 

2,634,245 51 

Total $ 4,825,067 34 

This bank transacts the heaviest business of any in the city. Its New York corre- 
spondents are the Third National Bank and Winslow, Lanier .i Co. 

COOPER'S COTTON PRESS. 

S. E. Coulon, Proprietor: Corner of Thalia and Tchoupitoulas streets. 

A. W. Cooper (deceased), built and established the fine press, which still bears his 
name, before the war. The institution covers the half block at the intersection of Tha- 
lia and Tchoupitoulas streets. Its present proprietor, Mr. S. E. Coulon, is a young 
man who received his business education in this State, and whose attainments, decision 
and natural executive qualifications especially fit him for the management of a large 
property, the direction of a strong staff of employes, and the conduct of the matters 
confided to him hy patrons. 

This press has a fine plant and plenty of room for storage purposes. The compress 
is one of Tyler's 76-inch cylinder steam presses, with accompanying machinery and ac- 
cessories. Its capacity is 1,000 bales a day. Sevent^y-five men are employed in and 
about the 3'ards and Compress. Fire plugs, hose and apparatus is in position and con- 
dition for immediate use in case of fire throughout the premises, and should additional 
assistance be required the watch, by means of alarm connections and telephone, can 
speedily summon the Fii-e Department. 

Mr. Coulon, the proprietor of this useful and accommodating concern, has obtained 
recognition as a superior business man principally by his own efforts. All that he owns 
is here in New Orleans, and as by family ties, property interests, and preferences, he is 
strongly attached to this vicinity, it may be relied upon that his best efforts will be di- 
rected in the future as they have been in the past to advance the trade with which he is 
so honorably connected. He has taken more than ordinary interest in the Cotton Ex- 
position and has endeavored to assist it to the best of his ability and resources. 

THEO. LILIENTHAL. 

Photographer and Picture Frame Manufacturer: 121 Canal street. 

The subject of this sketch is an example of what perseverence, business abilities 
and ambition can accomplish. Theodore Lilienthal, who enjoys the distinction of 
having a Photograph and Art Gallery inferior to none in America, first ventured into 
the field as proprietor in the year 1854 with a nominal capital and extremely limited re- 
sources. Fortune favored him to some extent, but his success is largely due to his own 
activity and energy. When he began he had little more than $200. Now his establish- 
ment represents hiore capital than all the rest of the photographers in New Orleans 
combined, and his custom comes from all the Southern States. Some five years ago he 
started a manufactory of picture frames on Chartres street out of the profits of his pre- 
vious undertakings. It has been a inost successful venture, and now employs between 
thirty and forty men and women operatives. This factory has everything in the way of 
late improvements and machinery to assist the production of frames. The gallery and 
salesrooms on Canal street are specially arranged for the display of the work performed 
■within and of the imported engravings and other fine works of art on sale. The show 
■windows are themselves a miniature gallery. The photographing department is fitted 
up for the finest and most artistic work. In it Mr. Lilienthal has had executed the 
largest combination photograph ever finished in the United States, that of the members 
of the Pickwick Club. This magnificent work was accomplished by the Never Fading 
Lambert process of which Mr. Lilienthal is the proprietor, he having the patent right 
for Louisiana. This is a celebrated work of art, and is now on exhibitton at his 
gallery. The business of the house now requires the whole area of the building at i3i 
Canal street, to accommodate the trade in Portraiture, Photographic Apparatus, Mate- 
rials, Glasses, etc. Four floors of the building are occupied besides and this is the only 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



93 



gallery in the South that has need of an elevator. The first floor is the general salesi-oom. 
The second story contains the photographic apparatus and materials that are kept in 
stock. The third floor has been set apart for the reception, dressing and general operat- 
ing room. In the top story is the furnishing floor. On the roof is an extra building 
for the printing of photos. 

Mr. Lilienthal will have a splendid display at the World's Exposition, competing 
there with the best galleries of Europe and America. He will use for the work to be 
exhibited there, the largest Camera in the South, one capable of producing life size 
and faultless pictures. His display will certainlj' prove that in quality and artistic ex- 
cellence his work is unrivaled in this section of the world, and possibly it may be ap- 
proved as of more especial merit. 

THE LOUISIANA STEAM SASH, BLIND AND DOOR FACTORY. 

Roberts & Co., Proprietors : Factor)-, numbers 299 I0 307 Gravier street; branch office, 52 Carondelet 

street. 




Robert Roberts established this most important manufacturing concern in the year 
1850. As appears from the business card of the concern, that gentleman still remains 
in control of affairs, having, however, Mrs. Isabella Brownlee in partnership with him. 
The factor}^ occupies a square or two of ground. It has an immense local trade and 
ships to all parts of the South. The average number of employes is seventy. This 
establishment is distinguished not only for the extent of its trade, but for the substan- 
tial and enduring qualities of its manufactures. Only the very best seasoned material 
is used in the construction of its woodworks. Machineiw of the latest and most im- 
proved patterns enables it to turn out work speedily and at less cost than lesser concerns. 
Great care is evercised in satisfying the architectural niceties and more artistic demands 
of these latter days. The managing proprietor, skilled by long experience in every 
branch of the business, gives his personal attention to all the various departments. 
Orders from abroad are filled with precision, and as rapidly as freight communications 
will pennit. Figures are furnished upon application and contracts entered into when 
desired. 



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The Industries of New Oreeans. 



B. J. WOLF & SONS. 

steam Manufacturer of Jeans Parity : 46 Chartrei street. 

This, the only steam manufactoiy of jeans in the South, it is gratifying to note, is 
in a highly prosperous condition As an additional source of wealth to the community 
in which it is established, the smallest sort of a manufacturing concern has claims to 
attention, but one whose operations are of the magnitude and proportions that this as- 
sumes, can not be overlooked in an account of the industries of a great city. The house 
and factory run by B. J. Wolf & Sons is not only the largest of its kind hereabouts, but 
its facilities are the most complete of any in the trade. The first productions of the 
concern were presented to the public in 1S6S, by the elder Wolf, ^vho started with the 
idea that a superior article must attract trade. Such was the fact. The business has 
now reached proportions that require the assistance of the sons, I. J., A. J., and M. J. 
Wolf, each of whom, although having a thorough understanding of the whole trade, 
attends to his own branch of it, thus insuring thoroughness. 

The house and factory occupies the two floors, 50X 125 at 46 Chartres street. It em- 
ploys 200 men aud women. The plant includes a se\en horse-power gas engine which 
runs the sewing machinery. The trade comes from all over the South, from Mexico 
and Cuba. One floor is used for storing the reserve stock, the other is for the workmen 
and women. The proprietors have lived here all their lives and have always been con- 
nected with this business. From the fact that their goods are made on their own prem- 
ises by skilled white labor and with power, they are of uniform quality and durability, 
hence the house can offer a better made article for the same prices that other houses put 
upon inferior stuffs. All the jeans stamped with Wolf ci: Sons' name are warranted not 
to rip. This house will be foimd by intending purchasers to be a most satisfactory 
house to deal with. 

JAMES A. RENSHAW. 

Cotton and Sug- ir Facto.- and General Commission Merchant: 32 Perdido street. 

Back to the year 1S30 is a retrospect of uncommon length, yet the house designated 
as abo\e computes its term of mercantile service from that pioneer date. Robert C. 
Cammack, who has long since been laid to rest, was the founder of it, and the spirit 
infused by him into its management still survives and is perceptible in all the operations 
and transactions of the house, as it is conducted at present. The house is still located 
at No. 32 Perdido street, which office has been occupied by its predecessors since 1858. 
This is in itself a noteworthy fact. 

Confining its operations to the wide field provided in the various parishes of Louisi- 
ana where it has connections reaching back to its foundation, and to the ?;taples, cotton, 
sugar and rice, it maintains its prestige, dignity and prosperity against the continual 
opposition of rival concerns. And aside from his every-day pursuits, Mr. Renshaw has 
claims to recognition as a business tnan ; for, in"'addition to his membership in the Cot- 
ton Exchange (which body, by the way, has selected him Chairman of the Committee on 
Information and Statistics, one of the most important branches of its administration), 
he is a director of both the Sun and Hope Insurance Companies, and of the Metairie 
Cemetery Association, the latter indicating his personal qualities and the esteem in 
which he is held. He was born and bred in New Orleans, was trained in the cotton 
traffic, and is bound up by every investment and interest he has, in the welfare of his 
nati\e community. 

This house pavs particular attention to orders for the purchase of all descriptions 
of produce, and makes liberal advances on consignments. 

JAMES J. REISS. 

Steam Cracker and Confectionery Manufactory: 93 and 95 Decatur street. 

A shining exainple of persistency, pluck and energy, is the subject of this sketch. 
When he first started in life in New^ Orleans, a quarter of a century ago, he peddled his 
wares out of a basket. To-day he is, by his industry and determination, at the head of 
one of the finest manufacturing concerns of the city, that at 93 and 95 Decatur street. 
This concern was started in i860, in a small way by Norman &Reiss. In 1S77 Mr. Norman 
died and the establishment has since been operated under the name at the head of this 
article. The house manufactures macaroni and \ermicelli, and has about the largest 
bake oven in New Orleans, thus showing its importance. It employs from sixty to 
seventy-five men, is three stories high, and lOO feet by 250 feet in extent. Its specialties 
are crackers and confectionery, in which lines it has facilities of the very first order. 
It is a great house in all respects. 



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EDWARDS & HAUBTMAN. 

Manufacturers of Sugar Making Machinery and Apparatus : 22 to 32 Front and 21 to 31 Delta streets, 

A history of the industrial establishments of this city and State could not be writ- 
ten without conspicuous mention of this one. The name of Daniel Edwards, the fa- 
ther of one of the partners and founder of the works, is identified with manufacturing 
in New Orleans as a prominent pioneer of that line. He began business in the year 
1S46 and was succeeded by his son, James D. Edwards about twelve or thirteen years 
ago. About six yeai-s ago the marvelous development of the trade compelled an addi- 
tion to the management, and Leon F. Haubtman, who had been the superintendent of 




the'works for twenty years, was admitted to partnership. While the greater part of 
the'firm's trade is with this immediate section, it is not altogether confined thereto, but 
extends to Texas, Florida and other distant States, and as far abroad as South America, 
In the construction and repair of steamboat machinery these shops have always been 
regarded as expert, and of sugar making apparatus they have made a special study. The 
works cover probably the largest premises of any similar concern in the South, occupy- 
ing as they do a space of 150x150 at the junction of Delta and Front streets. Sixty 



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skilled workmen are the average number of employes, but in the busy season so mani- 
as 200 and more are frequently on the pay rolls. 

The following material ^vhen stainped with this firm's name is preferred to all oth- 
ers: All kinds of Distilling Apparatus; Vacuum Pans; Hepworth's Centifugals Mixers; 
Steam and Doctor Engines; Steam Pumps; Steam Trains; Cylinder and Flue Boilers ; 
Clarifiers; Evaporators; Sugar Wagons; Iron Juice, Syrup and Molasses Tanks; and 
Copper, Brass and Sheet-iron work of every description. 

Mr. J. D. Edwards, of the present firm, was elected and served as one of the city 
administrators (Water Works Department) to the entire satisfaction of the citizens, 
displaying in the conduct of the affairs of the public the same application and business 
qualities that characterize his own concerns. Among other recent mechanical inven- 
tions introduced by this firm, for an establishment of this sort must keep pace with the 
march of progress, may be mentioned the improved columns for rectifying raw spirits, 
which are everywhere preferred over all other apparatus intended for that purpose. 

BORNIO & BROTHER. 

Tobacco and Cigars; Havana Lottery Prizes Cashed: 45 Camp and 120 to 126 Gravier street. P. O » 

Drawer 18S. Established 1S4S 

This, the oldest house in the city devoted to the manufacturing and importation of 
cigars, was founded by the father of the present proprietor fifty years ago, and its 
solidity since then has never been questioned. The firm was composed, till 1S74, of 
Domingo Bornio and Manuel Bornio — the last of the two, residing always at Havana, 
fully contributed to the success and prosperity of the business — until the death of his 
partner and brother in 1874, in which year he abandoned the city of Havana and made 
New Orleans his permanent home, where he took personal charge of the business of the 
firm and has been at the head of it ever since. With enough capital and the natural 
relations built up here and in Havana, Cuba, in that long lapse of time, it is easy to 
understand the success and popularity of this house. 

In its early years, when this house had the lion's share of the business of the city, 
it was noted for its choice selection of the best stock only, and from this character it 
has never departed. Everywhere over the South and Southwest the name at the head 
of this article is a synonym for genuineness and responsibility. 

LIVERPOOL COTTON PRESS. 

Johnston «& Randolph, Proprietors: Corner of Front and Erato streets. 
This historical institution was erected about thirty ^^ears ago, by A. B. Reading, for 
the compressing and storage of cotton. It then covered a great area, but about ten 
j-ears ago an additional square was added to the premises and the establishment was 
greatly improved. Mr. Reading ran the concern about twelve years. During the war 
it was used by the Federal authorities for a powder magazine, but it has since, as may 
be surmised, been entirely devoted 10 more peaceful purposes. Mr. Reading sold his 
rights to H. H. Stanley. He died two years thereafter, and the place came into the 
possession of Messrs. John Chaffe, Geo. Johnston and J. E. Randolph, gentlemen suffi- 
ciently well known in the community to attract to it an extended patronage. 

The press yard and sheds now occup}- a space 500 by 319^ feet. The compress, one 
of the Steers-Morse patent, is an S2-inch cylinder machine, having a pressure per bale 
of 4,400,000 pounds, and a daily capacity of 1,100 bales. There is storage room to put 
22,000 bales under cover. About eighty-two men are employed — white and black — 
twelve of them in and about the press-room, and seventy or more in the yard. It will 
thus be seen that this is one of the very largest presses now in service. Its patronage 
comes from all the southern section shipping via this port. It is a grand concern, and 
even with the very moderate tariff established by the Trade does a prosperous business. 

BERKSON BROTHERS, 

Rectifiers, Compounders and Wholesale Dealers in Groceries: 12 and 14 South Peters; 12 and 14 

Tchoupitoulas street. 

Theodore and Simon Berkson are wholesale grocers and compounders of liquors at 
12 and 14 South Peters street. An idea of the extent of their patronage and stock may 
be got from the fact that their establishment runs through from thence to the corre- 
sponding numbers on Tchoupitoulas street. The house is an old as well as a staunch 
one. It was established about the close of the late civil war, and has maintained a high 
prestige in commercial circles ever since. Besides the rectifying and improvement of 
liquors the firm makes a specialty of the four great staples, coffee, sugar, molasses and 
rice. It is a thoroughly sound, faii-dealing and liberal firm, known as such in all these 
parts and abroad as well. 



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EDMUND M. IVENS & SON. 

Manufacturers of and Dealeis in Stationary and Portable Steam Engines, Plantation Machinery, etc. : 
South Peters, Lafayette and Commerce streets. 

These grand Machine Works were established fully thirty years ago, upon not 
nearly so extensive a scale as that upon which they are now operated. Nevertheless 
they have acquired the patronage o£ the best part of the whole South. The partners of 
to-day are Edmund M. Ivens, who was one of the original founders of the works, and 
Harry K. Ivens, his son. Drainage and Irrigating Pumps, and Cotton Presses are the 
specialties of these Works, the proprietors claiming, and with sufficient reason, super- 
iority for their manufactures in these lines. Realizing that, in the remarkable progress 
of this Mechanical Age, the inventive faculty is a prime factor, the senior Ivens early 
exerted himself in that direction, applying for the first time numerous improvements in 
the miachinery most in use, and acquiring the rights to others that were valuable. 
Amongst other useful and meritorious apparatus that have met with general favor, may 
be mentioned the Ivens Double-Quick Self-Returning-Screw Cotton Press, of which the 
firm are patentees, and the Ivens Draining Machines, the grand prize medal exhibit of 
the New Orleans Fair of 1866. 




Ivens Cotton Press is the favorite in all the cotton states of this vicinity. It has a 
lock-chain box-fastening, oil-well base, improved hinge timbers, top-roller stops, and a 
thoroughly bolted box, and is made for steam or horse-power. The Drainage Pumps 
made at these works, are in many respects a marvelous construction. For the irrigation 
of rice fields, the drainage of overflowed plantations, the raising of sunken craft, and 
for dry dock purposes, it is the nearest approach to perfection that has yet been made. 
Many of them have been in successful operation throughout this section for the past 
five years. The Ashland Plantation, owned by Hon. D. F. Kenner, was drained with 
one of these pumps to the entire satisfaction of that gentleman. The steamship M{7i- 
netonka was floated out of twenty-one feet, six inches of water, without removing her 
cargo, in less than five hours, and the machinery which accomplished this wonderful 
operation was soon after sold for $10,000. The beauty of this pump is that it will dO' 
its work at one-fourth the cost of any other similar machine now in use. 

In affairs exclusively mercantile'the managers of these extensive works have a repu- 
tation corresponding with the esteem in which they are held as manufacturers. Shrewd, 
proficient and off-handed in their dealings, they have earned the favorable opinion of 
all classes and are regarded as representatives in this community of the prevailing Amer- 
ican ideas of advancement and progression. 



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E. K. CONVERSE. 

Commission Merchant: 97 Poydras street. 

Mr. E. K. Converse is held in such esteem by his associates of the trade 
that lie lias been the President of the Produce Exchange ever since its organization, ex- 

•ceepting one vear. He is one of the most popular citizens of the city, has been impor- 
tuned to accept jiolitical olfice, but has invariably declined, his aspirations taking the 
more useful channels that are congenial to a prosperous merchant. He is also a director 

•of the People's Bank. As may well be imagined, the house of which he is the pro- 
prietor stands high in the credit of the mercantile classes. The firm of Price & Frost 
tirst established the house in the year 1842. Seven years after Mr. Converse entered 
the firm, which has borne since then the various designations Price, Frost & Co., Price, 
Converse & Co., Price, Converse Si. Smith, Converse <Si: Kennett, and finally his alone. 
The house deals in Pork, Bacon, and Western Produce. Its trade locally is large, and 
also heavy with the South and West. The high commercial standing of the house has 
given it influence abroad and wealth at home. Mr. Converse's influence upon the mar- 
ket has always been exerted for the good of both producer and consumer. He has never 
inclined to those speculative methods that upsec commercial communities. Foremost 
in every public enterprise, the concern \<'hich bears his name shares in the general credit 
and prosperity of the metropolis with which his fortunes have been identified for so 
many years. This house, having nmple resources, is enabled to carry large stocks and 
to give its patrons the most favorable treatment and terms. Office, 97 Poydras street. 

PLANTERS' CRESCENT OIL COMPANY. 

D C. McCan, President; Ed. Ivy, Vice-President ; James M. Wins lip, Secretary: Office, 9 Delta sti-eet : 

Mills in Gretna and Alg'iers. 

In 1881 there was incorporated a consolidation of the Planters' and Crescent City 
Oil Companies imder the compound name of both, and for the purpose of jointly con- 
tinuing the manufacture of cotton seed oil. The present officers and location of this 
immense concern, the greatest of its kind in this vicinity and the most prosperous also, 
are given in the headlines to this account. Both mills are run at top speed. Day and 
night watches are employed and 400 men are on the pay roll. The capacity of the two 
mills combined may be roughly estimated at: 

Tons of seed use tl per day 35° 

Barrels of crude oil per diem 275 

Barrels of refined oil produced 1500 

This and the other product finds ready sale in all the markets of the world, com- 
manding the best rates on account of its quality. Some idea of the strength and stand- 
ing of the concern may be gained from the fact that the capital stock is all paid up, and 
is held by the stockholders, none being up as collateral. 

President McCan is one of the solid men of the community. He is a Director of 
the New Orleans National Bank, is a member of the firm of D. C. McCan &: Son, foun- 
drymen, and owns several large plantations. He is a fair sample of the class of busi 
ness men who have invested in the Planters'-Crescent Oil Company. The mills' P. O. 
address is Box 206. 

R. SCHMUTZ. 

Successor to C. Duhamel, Optician: 14 Chartres street. 

This house has been known by its most excellent optical goods and apparatus, for 
TOore than forty years; indeed, it dates its establishment from the year 1840. The 
•original proprietor of it is long since dead, but he has a worthy and competent successor 
;in the clever optician whose name heads this account. Mr. Duhamel died in 1879, ^'""^ 
Mr. Schmutz, who had been in his employ, managed the concern for his widow until 
'her death in January of 1884, when he took charge, and still continues the business 
'under the old name. 

As the oldest and largest house of its line, this one has a most extended patronage. 
It sells to all the New Orleans jewelers, spectacles, eye-glasses, etc., and ships to all 
parts of the Southern States, to South America and the Spanish American countries. It 
supplies all the opticians here that do business in a small way, and is special manufac- 
turer of sugar barometers, thermometers and other test instruments. It is the sole 
-establishment that grinds convex, cylindrical and prismatic lenses, and has facilities for 
its business exceeding those of any' other house here located. Having been in the busi- 
ness since boyhood, Mr. Schmutz "is not only thoroughly posted in all the mechanical 
■operations required, but is a clever business man as well. The house is one of high 
standing with the business commvinity. 



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SCHMIDT & ZIEGLER. 

wholesale Grocers and Importers of Wines and Liquors: 49 to 55 South Peters street. 

Wm. B. Schmidt and F. M. Ziegler es- 
tablished this house more than forty jears 
ago. Jas. J. Schmidt lias since been ad- 
mitted to the firm. The premises occu- 
pied hy this house are the most extensive 
of any wholesale firm in the city, and 
the trade done by it is proportionately 
great, requiring over sixty employes, con- 
stantly. Schmidt & Ziegler's goods may 
be found in every section of the South. 
Other firms have their patronage at par- 
ticular points, but no house here or else- 
where, it is safe to say, rolls up a greater 
aggregate of transactions, large and small, 
at the close of the year. This result has 
: only been attained by the application of 
the strictest business principles, combined 
with a most thorough vmderstanding of 
, the wants of the various communities that 
are to be supplied. A house doing such 
a business must not only keep abreast but 
' a little ahead of the times, and there is no 
novelty in the way of grocers' goods, staple or fancy, that Messrs. Schmidt and Ziegler 
do not add to their stock. And everything is of the best, the firm being too proud of 
its well earned reputation to jeopardize it by dealing in inferior articles of any sort. 
That is why this house has been successful where others failed. Schmidt & Ziegler are 
the sole agents in New Orleans for Otard, Dupuy & Go's. Brandies, Seignoret Freres' 
Wines, and G. FI. Mumm & Go's. Ghampagne, all of which have a world wide rep- 
utation. 

E. C. PALMER & CO. 

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Paper, Stationery etc: 93 and 95 Camp street. 

The house which is the subject of this sketch, undoubtedly carries the most com- 
plete stock in the paper and stationery line to be found south of Ghicago, and its vai-i- 
•ety is excelled by but few of the establishments of the great western metropolis. Occu- 
pying premises, fifty feet front by one hundred and eighty feet deep, and three stories 
high, stocked with the full line of stationers wares, it is eas}^ to understand how this 
fine house maintains its eminence in the trade. The building containing the ware- 
rooms of this house, are intended to hold a $50,000 stock, that amount being necessary 
to supply the widespread patronage of this concern, which has credits upon its books , 
representing the whole section from Florida to the Gity of Mexico. The most notable 
display in the stationery line at the great Exposition is being made by this house, 
whose prestige has not been permitted to decline for a moment since its foundation in 
1864. The enumeration of the staple articles alone displayed by this house upon its 
shelves would fill a great catalogue. It is sufficient to say, this is the distributing depot 
for numerous great mills, and for all grades of wrapping, printing and writing paper, 
cotton and paper flour sacks, manila bags, twines, pocket books, papeteries, envelopes, 
fancy stationery, etc. 

This establishment has also the sole wholesale agency for the following great man- 
ufacturing firms, whose wares are noted for superior and general excellence. 

The Holyoke Paper Go., of Holyoke, Mass., Fine Ruled and Flat Papei-s; The Whit- 
ing Paper Go., of Holyoke, Mass., Ruled and Flat Writing Papers; The Old Berkshire 
Mills, of Dalton, Mass., Fine Ledger Papers; Grane Bros., of Westfield, Mass., " War- 
ranted All Linen " and " Japanese Linen " Papers; Taylor Nichols & Co., Papeteries 
and Fancy Papers; Kitterlinus Printing House, Manufacturers of Fancy Ghromo Gards; 
■George Bruce & Son & Go., the New York Type Foundry; R. Hoe & Go., Printei-s' 
Material and Presses, New York; H. D. Wade "& Go., every variety of Printing Inks; 
The Dennison M'f'g. Go., of Boston, Shipping Tags, Gum Labels, Sealing Wax, No- 
tarial Seals, Dead Lock Fasteners; The Prouty Press Go., of Boston, Job Printing 
Presses; Van Ribber & Go., Gincinnati, "Rough and Ready " Roller Composition. 

Wrapping paper, printed to order, with advertisement on each sheet. Price lists 
furnished on application. Shipments made exactly as directed. Samples forwarded by 
xnail. 



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A. GEIGER & CO. 

Importer of Foreign Cloths and Tailors' Trimminfrs. Agent for Attakapas Cottonade: corner of Char- 

trcs and Customhouse streets. 

As the oldest house of this line, that known as above takes precedence ot every other^ 
and easily retains its position hy the amount and volume of its operations. It is 
about the only house here that imports direct from the first hands French, English and 
German Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, Merino, Velvets, Drillings and Tailors' Stock. 
It has a history covering some fifty years. Mr. Melville, the founder of it, was drowned 
at sea, and Mr. Girard, one of his clerks, became Melville's successor. Then the 
house was Girard & Coteaux, and finally A. Geiger, who was employed bv the house in 
responsible positions, succeeded to the control about the year 1S71;. Business was thus 
continued until his death, Nov. 3, 1SS4, when Mr. Geo. Weidemann became the man- 
ager. He had been with the house from 1S76, had acquired an interest some few months- 
before Mr. Geiger's death, and is now the surviving partner. 

The house trades with both City and Country, principally in cloths, cassimeres and 
tailors' trimmings. It is a very strong house as well as an old one, and occupies a po- 
sition with respect to the trade that is of great advantage to it. 

CRESCENT CITY SELTZ AND MINERAL WATER COMPANY. 

E. Dehlieux, President; S. Brulard, Secretary: 270, 272 and 274 Royal street. 

This important manufacturing industry was not in the beginning the strong estab- 
lishment it now is. It was started about thirty-five years ago by S. Pablo & Co., Avho 
for many years transacted a fine trade with it. About the year 1S76, seven or eight dif- 
ferent firms engaged in the business, concluded, for mutual benefit, to consolidate their 
capital, resources and patronage. This happy thought resulted in the organization of 
the present company, which is the largest of the kind in New Orleans, and the strongest 
in the South. It manufactures and sells more of its products than all the other Soda 
and Mineral water concerns of this vicinity combined. It has splendid facilities on the 
three Royal street lots occupied by it, having recently been refitted and had the very 
latest improvements in its line applied to its outfit, so that customers may now be satis- 
fied that the Seltz and Mineral waters supplied by it are of the purest and very best 
quality, and can be furnished in quantities to suit, free of drayage, to any part of the 
city- Orders for shipment carefully attended to and deliveries made free on shipboard. 

The company is also engaged in the soda water trade, supplying fountains and 
other goods, such as soda waters, ginger ale, vichy and Saratoga waters, natural as well 
as artificial waters, and also complete bottling outfits, especially adapted for country 
use, the low price of which will enable the bottling business to be carried on profitably 
in towns of verj' small population. 

THE WHITNEY IRON WORKS COMPANY. 

Geo. Pandely, President; Newell Tilton, Mnnager; Wni. J. Cumniings, Secretary and Treasurer: 
Tchoupitoulas, St. Joseph and Foucher streets ; Offices iSi Tchoupitoul; s. 

This, the most extensive iron works in this section, and one of the greatest in the 
South, was established by an incorporated company of capitalists, after the Morgan 
Railroad changed hands," May 19th, 1883. At that" date Messrs. George Pandely and 
Newell Tilton, in conjunction with Messrs. C. M. and George I. Whitney, having in 
mind the possibilities for such a concern, bought the property situated as described 
above and organized the company. All four are sufficiently well known in this com- 
munity without further introduction. Mr. Pandely will be remembered as the superin- 
tendent for the Morgan Company, and Mr. Tilton as the chief engineer and assistant 
superintendent for the same. A capital of $100,000 was paid in by the subscribers, 
and the old New Orleans Foundry and Machine Works were bought of Mr. Charles G. 
Johnson the former owner. Improvements were made to the works and greater facilities 
added immediately to carry out the purpose the new owners had in view, viz: the man- 
ufacture of sugar making machinery, plantation and railroad work. Accordingly some 
of the most complicated constructions in the mechanical line have since been built, and 
a number of the largest sugar mills ever ordered. 

The establishment is the most complete of its kind in the South. It has the largest 
riveting machine, the finest planer and lathe in all this section. The annual business 
closely approaches a quarter of a million dollars in amotmt. The pay roll for the 150 
employes calls for $8,000 per month. 

Steam boilers and steamboat machinery make up a large part of the trade. Com- 
petent consulting engineers and draftsmen are emplo3'ed by the works which with their 
assistance will furnish estimates and contract for the construction of all kinds of ma- 



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chinerj and iron work. Material, workmanship and date of delivery guaranteed in all 
cases. Thorough pi-eparations for the repair of railroad, steamship, steamboat, saw 
mill and plantation machinery. The following supplies on hand or made to order: 

Steam Fittings, Gas Fittings, Boiler Tubes, Tube Scrapers, Sugar Mills, Boilers, 
Rubber Belting, Rubber Hose, Hose Nozzles, Hose Couplings, Rubber Packing, Hemp 
Packing, Patent Packing, Straightway Valves, Globe Valves, Powel's Valves, Water 
Gauges, Gauge Cocks, Screw Wrenches, Pipe Cutters, Pipe tongs, Foot Valves, Steam 
Whistles, Patent Lubricators, Safety Valves, Pully Blocks, Furnace Mouths, Ratchet 
Drills, Oil Pumps, Cylinder Cocks, Belt Hooks, Washer Cutters, Boiler Fronts, Bab- 
"bitt Metal, Lifting Jacks, Engineer's Supplies, Portable Railroads, Hoisting Engines, 
"Machine Bolts, Nuts and Washers, Saw Mills, Vacuum Pans, Vacuum Pumps, Cotton 
Presses, Gin Saws, Grate Bars, Steam Engines, Blake Pumps, Steam Guages, Vacuum 
■Gauges, Iron Pipe. 

THE SOUTHERN BREWING CO. 

Lager Beer: Peter Blaise, President; Geo. Faehnle, Vice President, H. H. Bierhorst, Director, Ernest 
Pragst, Jr. Secretary: Office and Brewery, corner of Villere and Toulouse streets. 

This is one of the most remarkable examples of a successful venture to be found 
in all the South. Scarcely more than a year ago, Maj', 1883, the establishment was 
opened, and such has been the popular approval of its beverage, that its field of opera- 
tions is growing daily. This is the only concern brewing lager in the South, aside from 
one small institution in Texas, which does not pretend to rival it. Such is the demand 
for the most excellent product of this brewery, that it has to be run both day and 
night, to keep pace with the consumption of its lager. The trade is mostly local, but 
a patronage in all the States contiguous to this, is fast developing. 

This brewery employs forty men, that number with the improved facilities in use, 
l)eing sufficient to brew a quantity equal to what double that many would once have 
been required for. The new Air-Cooling process is used to prepare the brew, and get 
it into salable condition. The lager lays in the cooling cellar ninety days before be- 
ing sold. 

The management of this concern is a guarantee that the high standard adopted for 
this lager (in some respects it excels the St. Louis and Milwaukee article), will be re- 
tained. The President of the company is Mr. Peter Blaise, who is proprietor of the 
Hope Brewery (city beer). He has been twenty-five years in the business, having 
started as a wagon driver and worked his way up to his present exalted position in the 
trade- Mr. Faehnle is the well known lumber dealer. He is an old resident, and is 
firmly attached to this community by ties of kindred, property, etc Mr. Bierhorst is 
in the Grocery business. He is also a very old and substantial citizen. Secretary 
Pragst was raised in this city. Although his connection with the brewing industry 
dates from the commencement of this enterprise, he has already shown a marked adapta- 
bility for it. 

This institution is one of the foremost manufacturing concerns in the city and has 
the good wishes of the whole community. 

A. LAMBERT. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Pittsburg, Anthracite and Cannel Coals, 24 Carondelet street. 

This is a house that has a strong trade with the country parishes, its principal patron- 
age coming from the sugar planters of the Coast and Bayou Teche region. A fine 
city trade is also done however, the establishment having always maintained a charac- 
ter for square dealing and expedition in the filling of orders. Mr. Lambert began bus- 
iness in 187S, with a partner, but in i88i he assumed the sole management, greatly to 
his own and his patrons' satisfaction. He is regarded in all quarters, wherever he has 
had transactions, as an upright and conscientious merchant, accommodating and 
prompt. Particular attention is paid by him to plantation orders. His landing is lo- 
cated on the Levee, foot of Esplanade street, opposite the U. S. Mint. 

Notwithstanding the introduction of cheaper and inferior coals from Alabama and 
Tennessee, the Pittsburg coal still holds its own in this market. For many purposes no 
substitute has been found for it. To satisfy the public demand, be it of whatever na- 
ture, Mr. Lambert furnishes any sort that may be desired, and at prices that compare 
with the cheapest shippers of this vicinity. He has no prejudices and is only desirous 
to satisfy his patrons. Since he acquired the whole business, his affairs have been ex- 
ceptionallj' prosperous and his soundness is indisputed. 

It may not be out of place to add that Mr. Lambert has been selected as a director 
of the New Orleans Insurance Association because of this very standing and his fine 
business qualifications. 



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THE CRESCENT CITY CORNICE WORKS. 



Backus & Brisbin 




proprietors ; Skylig-I ts unci Tin rooting : 247 to 251 Magazine street. 

The proprietors of this manufacturing concern 
are comparative strangers to the people of this vi- 
cinity, but they come with business recommendations 
of the first order. For sometime past tlieir affairs in 
South America have confined them there, Mr. E. 
Backus having been the United States Consul at Para, 
^^_ Brazil, and his partner a resident of that place also. 
^^ Since their venture into business here, thev have met 
^^with satisfactory issurances that 'hey have net 
attempted too much in establishirg what is cer 



tainly the largest es- 
tablishment of its 
kind in the South, 
and the only one in 
Louisiana. 

The premises they 
now occupy are 90 x 
125 feet in area, thus 
showing that they 
propose to do busi- 
ness on a broad scale. 
They employ about 
thirty hands and have 
already' secured suffi- 
cient patronage to 
keep that large force 
busily engaged. The 
principal manufac- 
tiu'es of the concern 
are Galvanized Iron 
Cornices and Win- 
dow Caps, and the 
Hayes Patent Sky- 
light, which is the 
most popular im- 
provement of the 
sort all o\er the Uni- 
ted States for stores, 
halls, etc. 

The establishment 
just described is a 
most welcome addi- 
ion to the manufac- 
tiu-ing industries of 
the city and is well 
worthy the success 
which it now bids fair 
to achieve. 




HENRY LOCHTE & CC. 



Wholesale Grocers and Lic^uor Dealers: 46 and 4S Tchoupitoulas street. 

Henry Lochte and Wm. G. Murtagh, the successors of Lochte & Cordes, comprise 
the wholesale and importing firm of Henry Lochte & Co., a house too well known in 
city and country to need encomium of any sort. The house is now thirteen years old, 
a length of experience which has given its managers a thorough knowledge of the 
different grades of groceries and liquors. Thus in the collection of stock it is en- 
abled to select the purest and the best. Messrs. Lochte & Co. always carry a large stock 
of the most popular brands of whiskies in the market. Besides this firm's splendid 
local trade, it satisfactorily supplies an extensive demand frotn all parts of the South. 
It is a prominent feature of the provision trade of the city and has been one of the most, 
active and efficient agemies in the promotion of that important industry. 



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THE A. DELPIT FACTORY, 

Alfred Di'ifirho, Proprietor; Manufacturer of Snuff and Tobacco: Nos. n to 17 St. Louis street. 

This, the only snuff factory in the South, and the oldest tobacco factory in Louisi-- 
ana, was first started in Algiers, so far back as the year 1808. There it remained until 
1826, when it was removed to New Orleans. The salesrooms of the concern had al- 
ways been in this city however. Julien Delpit was the founder of the business. He- 
was succeeded in process of time, by his nephew Adrien Delpit, who, dying in iSSj,. 
was in turn succeeded by Alfred Dufilho, who had been the manager for some seven, 
years previous, and who purchased the business in the year above mentioned. 

This factory employs from eighty to one hundred hands. In addition to its minu- 
facturing interests, all kinds of cigars are handled by it. The establishment has taken, 
premiums for its excellent products at all the great PIxpositions, notably, at the Paris- 
Exposition of nS67, when the gold medal of merit was awarded it for superior snuff.. 
A fine display is also being made by Alfred Dufilho, at the present World's Fair, which 
can be seen at DD, 9 ana 10, Main Building. 

Mr. Alfred Dufilho is also largely interested in other important ventures. He is a. 
director in the Southern Insurance Co., and is also a partner in the banking and real 
estate house of Lafitte & Dufilho. Having business relations with about all the world, 
and large local investments, "Mr. Dufilho and his establishment has been selected as- 
representative of one of New Orleans' foremost industries and as such is given this 
space. 

THE COMMERCIAL PRESS. 

Smith & Goldsmi'.h, Propretors: Maiket, Chippewa, St. Thomas and Richard streets. 

This fine and most complete instisution has this advantage over others of it& kind 

it is directed by men who may almost be said to know no other business. Hence the 
character it has retained for expeditious manipulation of the material entrusted to it 
despatch in filling directions and safety in the matter of storage. The gentlemen own- 
ing it are expert in all the affairs connected with compressing and storage. Mr. George 
Smith has been a resident of this locality for thirty-nine years, and has served a life-long- 
apprenticeship, having been employed in various positions in and about presses before 
he obtained control of this one. Mr. Ferdinand Goldsmith succeeded his father, who 
was in his lifetime Mr. Smith's partner. He too has had a thorough training since h 
boyhood, in all matters connected Avith the trade. 

The Commercial Press, as has been intimated, is one of the largest sort, as well as- 
one of the most perfect in its appointments. It covers two and one half squares of land. 
It is fitted with a magnificent Leeds Compress, equal in every respect to any now in oper- 
ation. Seventy-five hands are employed in the numerous processes of press work. A 
hundred bales an hour is not beyond the capacity of the compress, which is equal ta 
150,000 bales during the season, and th'-j storage room is sufiicient for 35,000 bales, 
under cover. 

The business-like proprietors of this Press have not been behind their neio-hbors 
in encouraging by every means at their command, the grand World's Exposition pro- 
ject which is stimulating the pride and concerns of the whole South. Their subscrip- 
tion to the funds was just what was expected of them. The firm thus maintained its.. 
character as the representative of its line of business. 

THE SOUTHWESTERN BRUSH-LIGHT CO. 

Electric Light and Power Furnished. Chas. E. Black, President; \V. A. Phelps, Vice President' S. H^ 
Bell, Secretary and Treasuier; Office, 3S Union street; Works at Union and Dryades streets. ' *" 

Notwithstanding that the electric light is no longer a novelty, and that it is actually 
a necessity, this, the Southwestern Brush-Light and Power Co", is the only company 
that has successfully operated in New Orleans and its vicinity. The Southwestern 
company, which has an authorized capital of $300,000, and is officered by the responsi- 
ble and sterling gentlemen named in the headlines to this account of it, has the sole 
right to use the Brush lighting apparatus, which is the only practical system and the 
latest that has been perfected. The company has been running, since 1881, remarkable 
works at the point indicated above. Included in its plant is a magnificent new 800, 
horse power engine, sufiicient to furnish all the necessary facilities for 1,000 electric 
lights. A.t present the cotnpany is furnishing to the city and to private parties, 600. 
lights, which have enlivened and beautified the city to the satisfaction of its patrons the 
public, and all concerned. 

There is no sort of doubt but that the electric light is the light of the future. New- 
discoveries and appliances are rapidly developing fields heretofore unthought of for it.. 



I04 The Industries of New Orleans. 

And at present, for street lighting, it cannot be dispensed with. But there are numei'- 
ous other uses to which this marvelous illuminating force may be put. Apparatus is 
now constructed for out-door lights and for large public places, which this company only 
has the right to furnish in this vicinity. The Southwestern Brush Company have and will 
continue a grand display at the Exposition while it lasts ; making perhaps the finest exhi- 
bition of the brilliancy and utility of the powerful and illuminant electric agency that 
has vet been made. Persons interested can then behold the perfection to which this 
method has been brought. Courteous and prompt attention to inquiries, orders, etc., 
at the Union street office of the Company, No. 38. 

THE PELTON SUGAR REFINERY. 

Joseph Dunbar, Proprietor: 123 to 130 Mag^azine street. 

Hanna & Co. built the Pelton Sugar Refinery in the year 1861. J. M. Pelton was 
their successor. Mr. Dunbar became subsequently a partner and is now the proprietor 
of the refinery. The building occupies a square 100x200 feet in size, and fronts on 
Magazine street. It employs about thirty hands. Its specialty is the making of the 
celebrated Nonpareil Golden Syrup, the finest here manufactured. This favorite brand 
is manufactured expressly for family use from Louisiana sugar, and is guaranteed per- 
fectly pure and entirely free from deleterious chemicals. It is wholesome and delicious 
in flavor. This syrup retailers say, gives greater satisfaction to customers than any ar- 
ticle made North or South. It is put up in barrels, half-barrels and five gallon kegs. 

Besides this specialty the refinery keeps constantly on hand at market rates all the 
various grades of refined and raw sugars and molasses. 

MAXWELL & PEALE. 

Cotton Factors : 52 Union street. 

Robert Maxwell and W. A. Peale were, up to 1881, the "Co." of the firm of 
Hugh Allison & Co., well and widely known from the volume and character of its trans- 
actions, and esteemed for the high and honorable course of its business affairs. In that 
year, however, the demise of the senior member brought about the change to the present 
style of the house. The establishment has a straight history. Twenty-six years ago, 
Mr. Allison founded it. It has had continuous transactions since, and principle has 
prevailed with it always. 

Mr. Maxwell has been a resident of New Orleans for a quarter of a century. He 
tfollowed other mercantile pursuits until 1875, which was the year of his entry into the 
cotton business. Mr. Peale is a native of the Crescent City, and has been "in cotton" 
all his life. Mr. Maxwell, it may be remarked in passing, has a sufficient stake in this 
community to be eligible, and to be chosen as a director of the New Orleans National 
Bank, and to be selected for a similar responsibilitj' by the stockholders of the Mechanics 
and Traders Insin^ance Company. Both gentlemen are members of the Cotton Exchange 
and are prominent in that concern. Following the example of their fellow members, 
thev have gone into the Exposition scheme with heart and soul and have subscribed 
toward its expenses. Theirs is a notable house. 

SUTHERLAND'S COTTON PICKERY. 

TI105. Sutherland, Proprietor; Corner of Terpsichore and Chippewa streets. 

This thriving establishment has been so many years in operation that its founda- 
tion is almost lost in obscurity. Certain it is, however, that it will long continue to add 
to the general wealth of the cominunity by the economical services that are performed 
in the concern. Here, nothing in the way of damaged cotton is permitted to go to 
waste, thus adding just so much to the general wealth. The processes through which 
the spoilt material is put are too well known to reauire elaborate description. Burnt 
cotton is so prepared as to be fit for felt. Cotton which has been wetted and thus lost 
its natural oil, is repicked, baled and shipped to European markets, where it finds ready 
sale for the manufacture of shoddy goods and cheap wearing apparel. These stuffs 
may then be distinguished by the harsh surface which they present to the touch. In 
this country, by the way, there is no machinery for the making of such goods, and the 
distribution abroad of this inferior raw material, as it may be seen, is most beneficial to 
all concerned in the cotton production. 

The conductor of an institution devoted to a frugal pursuit of this sort is a public 
benefactor. One such man is worth a hundred middlemen who produce nothing and 
yet extract a living from the industry of others. Of course there always will be brokers, 
factors, and what not, whether or no ; nevertheless proper credit should be given to 
whom credit is due, and such enterprises as Mr. Sutherland's ought not to be overlooked 



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105 



in a work like this which professes to describe the representative men and industries of 
the Crescent City. 

The name of Tom Sutherland will be found among those who have contributed 
willingly and liberally toward the Exposition expenses. It is gratifying to be able to 
record that Mr. Suthei'land's business is prosperous and his conceim entirely re- 
sponsible. 

THE HIBERNIA NATIONAL BANK. 

President, Geo. R. Preston; Vice President, John G. Devereux; Cashier, Chas. Palfrey: 15 Camp 

street. 

This bank, when first organized in 1870, was conducted under a State charter, but 
three years later was reorganized as a National Bank. The directors of the institution 
are: Geo. R. Preston, John G. Devereux, Andrew Stewart, Adam Thomson, J. W. 
Stone, H. M. Preston, G. R. Westfeldt. 

The Hibernia's New York correspondents are the Importers and Traders National, 
and the Hanover National Banks of that city. This bank (the Hibernia) exerts an ex- 
tensive influence in the financial affairs of this section. It has correspondents through- 
out the country and has been a strong support to all the business interests of the city, 
promoting all substantial enterprises that applied to it. The stockholders are gentlemen 
interested heavily in manufactures and trade, and the directors are shrewd and efficient 
managers of the interests confided to them. 

PHIL. D. MAYER. 

Cigar Manufacturer and New Orleans Agent for tlie Germania Life Insurance Company, of N. Y. : 50 

Decatur sireet. 

Although also engaged in the insurance business, as indicated above, the major por- 
tion of the capital and the chief interests of this well-known citizen, are centered in the 
large cigar factory owned and operated by him on Decatur street. Here he employs 
steadily from 125 to 150 hands, according as the season may be brisk or the reverse. 
Into this line of manufactui-es Mr. Mayer first ventured so far back as 1856, as one of 
the firm of Mayer Bros., which designation was changed in 1882, when Mr. Mayer as- 
sumed undivided control. 

This factory has a trade reaching well over the South. It occupies a four-stoiy bus- 
iness house at the number mentioned in the headlines to this account, which has recently 
been entirely refitted and prepared to accommodate the expanding necessities of this 
market. Its most excellent and long since assured reputation is based upon the follow- 
ing superior and popular brands of cigars: "La Flor de Magnolia"; "De Mi Gusto"; 
"La Flor de America." 

These brands are handled by all the best houses in the city, and throughout the 
South. They have come into popular favor on account of their many and genuine 
merits. 

Mr. Mayer's responsibility and repute in this vicinity doubtless influenced the Ger- 
mania Life Insurance Company in confiding to him the direction of its affairs in this 
locality. Singularly enough there is not a real Life Insurance association of any sort 
organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana. The companies from abroad 
therefore transact a business in direct proportion to the popularity and sterling influence 
of their representatives. Hence the favor of the Germania Company, which has a good 
business here, as much on account of the standing of its agent as because of the sound- 
ness, stability and high character of the Company itself. 

The Germania Life Insurance Company issues two kinds of policies : Whole Life 
Insurance and Endowment Assurance. In the first case, the amount assured becomes 
due by the death of the deceased ; in the latter, the amount assured by a policy may be 
made payable after 10, 15, 20 or 25 years; but if the insured should die before the ex- 
piration of the stipulated term, the amount becomes payable. The Company issues any 
number of policies on any one life — to the total amount of $20,000 only, however. The 
.privileges in regard to traveling are extensive, the whole of Europe being included. 
This Company owns its own buildings in New York City, as well as in Berlin, receiving 
therefrom a large rental, which is an addition to its other resources. From its organi- 
zation, in i860, to the end of 1S83, the Germania Life Insurance Company has paid to 
its policy holders for claims by death, $8,316,500.76; matured endowments, $1,032,406.44; 
annuities, $76,894.18; dividends and surrenders, $5,472,298.09; total, $14,898,099.47, 
The total amount assured in force on January ist, 1884, was $39,535,091 ; annual cash 
income during the year 1S83, $2,011,413.68. The total assets of this Company are $10,- 
402,355; surplus as regai-ds policy holders, $1,350,807. 

Any further information concerning the methods or system of the Company will 
be cheerfully furnished by the courteous principal, his son or his employes, at number 
50 Decatur street. 

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io6 The Industries of New Orleans. 

THE UNION NATIONAL BANK. 

Carl Kohn, President; Stephen Chalaron, Cashier: Corner CarondeJet and Gravier streets. 

This institution has a history reaching over a half century, during the greater part 
of which it was operated under a State charter; but in 1S71 it was nationalized. Its di- 
rectors are the following well-known citizens, all of them men of means and capacity to 
direct financiering affairs: Wm. Hartwell, N. D. Wallace, A. J. Gomila, C. Kohn, 
John P. Richardson, Adolphe Meyer, Thomas C. Herndon, J. D. Hawkins, E. F. Laville- 
beuvre, J. Aldige. 

This Bank has a capital stock of $500,000, a surplus fund of $100,000, and undivided 
profits of $1(2,7 1 5 .02. ^"t the following statement or Cashier's report of the condition 
of the Union National, published December 31, 1SS4, shows more clearly the splendid 
resources and extensive operations of this thorough-going institution : 

RESOURCES. 

Loans andi discounts $1,414,212 76 

Overdrafts 2, 107 84 

U. S. bonds to secure circulation 50,000 00 

Other U. S. Bonds 50,000 00 

Other stocks and bonds $182,346 41 

Premiums paid on U. S. bonds 23,263 00 

Furniture and fixtures 3,ooo 00 — 208,609 41 

Currency and coin 279,790 72 

Checks on Clearing House 4--»334 7i— lo2,i2^ 43 

New York sight exchange 267,098 24 

Due from banks and bankers 2Pi9S^ 04 — 299,049 28 

Five per cent, fund with Comptroller 2,250 00 

Total $2,728,354 72 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital stock'^paid in $ 500,000 00 

Surplus fund 100,000 00 

-Undivided profits 52,715 02 

Dividends uncalled-for. 1,461 06 

Dividends payable January 2 20,000 00 

Individual dejjosits ". $1,552,114 07 

Due banks and foreign bankers 457,o64 57 

2,009,178 64 
Circulation 45,000 00 

Total $2,728,354 72 

The National Park-Bank and the Firet National Bank of New York, are correspon- 
dents of the Union National. Exchange on New York, Paris and the Gei-man cities is 
bought and sold, and banking transactions of every sort carried on»vvith all the princi- 
pal cities of the United States. 

J. & M. SCHWABACHER. 

General Commission Merchants : 66 to 72 M agazine ; qi and 93 Poydras street. 

The old firm of Schwabacher & Hirsch commanced business in New Orleans some 
eishteen years ago. The firm of J. & M. Schwabacher, composed of the brothers Julius 
and Morris Schwabacher, became its successors three years since. Western produce is 
its great specialty, together with meats, w4iich the firm's agency in Chicago, the great 
• cattle and ho" market of America, presided over by the senior partner, is enabled to 
deal in to advantage over less substantial houses. The handsome office and capacious 
store-rooms of this house are located in the four-story building 60x100 feet on Magazine 
and Povdras streets. The business at New Orleans requires 'fifteen salesmen, clerks, 
etc The trade of the house extends over the whole Southern States and even be- 
yond the United States borders. Liberal cash advances are made on consignments to 
the firm's address in New Orleans, or to that of Schwabacher & Co., No. 5 and 6, Union 
Bank Buildino- Chicago, 111., who also solicit cash ordersfor the purchase and shipment 
of provisions etc. This is a responsible and reliable house in the fullest sense of the 
words. 



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MARSHALL J. SMITH & CO, 

General Fire, Marine, River, Life, Accident and Guarantee Insurance: 64 Baronne street. 

This firm, which consists of Marshall J. Smith and E. P. Roux, represents at New 
Orleans the following sterling Insurance Corporations; 

Insurance Company of North America, Philadelphia; Lancashire Insurance Com- 
pany, Manchester, England; Sun Fire Office Company, London, England; Providence 
"Washington Insurance Company, Providence; Phoenix Insurance Company, Brooklyn; 
Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Company, New York; yEtna Life Insurance Com- 
spany, Hartford. 

The only Insurance that is reliable is that guaranteed by well established and pros- 
perous corporations such as those in the above list- Policies in the mushroom and ex- 
perimental concerns, unfortunately so plentiful nowadays, are dear at any rate. The 
insui-ance company holds the funds of the insured in trust, and in selecting a company 
insurers should patronize only those long-established and time-honored institutions 
(that rely for their patronage not upon prescribed limits, but have the world for a field. 
Such is that sound and substantial company, now 90 years old, the Insurance Company 
•of North America, whose central office is in Philadelphia, and which does a general 
iire and marine busine«s. Its capital stock is $3,000,000; surplus over all liabilities 
$3,211,96465; total assets $9,071,696 33. 

The Phoenix Insurance Company, of Brooklyn, New York, (established 1853) has a 
capital ot $1,000,000; gross surplus $2,759,035 98; gross assets $3,759,035 98. This 
company takes risks on cargoes, freight and hulls at easy terms. 

The Lancashire Insurance Company, of Manchester, England, with which has been 
merged the Scottish Insurance Company, has in the United States, a net surplus of 
;$755,628, and its cash assets in this cowntry amount to $1,624,810 96. 

These three companies, and in fact all that are in the list at the head of this article, 
offer with most abundant security, rates low as they can be made consistent with honest 
profit and success. 

Smith & Co. devote also considerable attention to Life Insurance. The Mutual 
Life Insurance Company, of New York, for which they act, has assets amounting to 
$101,000,000 — the greatest of anj^ such company in all the world. Jts surplus over all 
indebtedness is $12,000,000. In point of fact this company has not reached these mar- 
•velous proportions by any remarkable experience ; it has had a gradual and slow accum- 
lulation of profits extending over years of operation, and is conducted upon conservative 
principles that have been approved by time, and trial. And in- this particular it is note- 
worthy that a recent English writer in the ^tiarterly Review points out how and why 
by the prompt payment and settlement of claims, the great American companies have 
prospered more than British companies in the same time, and illustrates his argument 
by citing the very company which is here described. 

The Fidelity and Casualty Company, of New York City is another good and secure 
•concern with which the firm at 64 Baronne street have relations. 

Messrs. Smith and Roux have been in business here since 1S74, during which time 
they have had pleasant and confidential relations with thousands of insurers throughout 
the city and state, in all cases giving entire and undvided attention to the interests of 
^uch as entrust them with underwriting affairs. 

W. A. POLLOCK & CO. 

Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants : Jo Union street. 

W. A. Pollock, well known in this section as the substantial President of the Bank 
•of Greenville, Mississippi, and C. S. Farrar, of New Orleans, are the partners in the 
house herein paragraphed. The latter gentleman is an old resident of the city, and for 
many years has been identified with its business concerns, having been in several mer- 
cantile occupations before he finally adopted the cotton line as his avocation. Mr. 
Pollock, the senior member, resides at Greenville, where he has large property interests 
Besides his financial investments he is an experienced and successful cotton planter. 

These connections, interests and influence, thus give the house a high standing in 
the trade. There is no sort of doubt as to its responsibility and resources. With such 
advantages it operates over a wide field, taking in about the whole adjacent States with its 
•transactions. It was established only last year, but its prospects are entirely satisfac- 
tory, for a wide patronage is already assui-ed. The house has acquii-ed a reputation for 
the handling of staple cottons, more especially the Allen long staple cotton, which has 
taken all the premiums so far offered for long staple cotton. Messrs. Pollock & Co. 
'ihandle two thirds of all of that kind of cotton that comes to this port. 



io8 The Industries of New Orleans. 

THE MECHANICS' AND TRADERS' INS. CO. 

Lloyd R. Coleman, President; George H. Frost, Secretary: 14 Carondelet street. 

The Mechanics' and Traders' Insurance Company was incorporated in 1S69. Its. 
cash capital is $375,000; its surplus $170,000. It solicits Fire, Marine, and River risks^ 
which it takes at the lowest current rates. Its business was sufficient to warrant a 20 
per cent dividend last year; 5 percent on its stock, and 15 per cent on its premiums- 
Its risks are largely on city property, but its River business is excellent and its Marine 
trade first class. The Trustees of the company, who are to an extent as much its guar- 
antee as its capital is, are the following exceptionallv responsible business men: J. A- 
Braselman, J. D. Britton, T. J. Career, P. J. Cockbiirn, H. T. Cottam, O. Elmer, J. M. 
Frankenbush, Walter C. Flower, P. G. Gibert, J. D. Hill, Chas. HoUoway, I. L. Lyons, 
Laurent Lacassagne, T. L. Macon, H. J. Mullan, Robt. Maxwell, Emile J. O'Brien, 
F. J. Odendahl, Wm. A. Phelps, Ben O. L. Rayne, G. W. Sentell, A. M. Silbernagel, 
W. B. Thompson, P. A. Villermin, Jos. Vignes", J. M. Walsh, T. S. Waterman, Fred- 
erick Wing, W. Y. West, W. G. Wheeler. Lloyd R. Coleman. F. C. Gregory is the 
Assistant Secretary and Fire Clerk, J. M. Crawford (late Secretary of the Union Ins. 
Co.) the Marine and River Clerk, F. Auzont is the Inspector and R. C. Shortridge the- 
Collector, all of them experienced and competent underwriters. Following is the ■< 

FIFTEENTH ANNUAL .STATEMENT OF THE COMPANY: 

Fire Premiums $185,079 77 

River Premiums 37>7i3 -2 

Marine Premiums 11 ,395 79 

Unearned Premiums, December 31, 1S83 76,000 00 

$310,18878. 

Deduct — 

Unearned Premiums, December 31, 18S4 $ 70,000 00 

Returned Premiums 20,941 80 

Reinsurances 33)049 ^7 

Rebates and Commissions 25,379 42 

149,370 39. 

Net Earned Premiums $ i6o,S 18 39 

Add Interest 33»37i 38 

Total Receipts $194,189 77; 

Less — 

Fire Losses paid $72,912 66 

River Losses paid 9)240 88 

Marine Losses paid • 962 31 

Unadjusted Losses 30,113 ^3 

Taxes and Licences 3,3i3 9^ 

Office and Agencies Expenses and Board of LTnderwriters 30,839 02 

Profit and Loss i ,548 50 

148,936 46' 

Net Profits $45)253 31' 

DIVIDENDS DECLARED DECEMBER I9, 1SS4. 

In addition to the semi-annual interest declared July i, 1SS4. 
5 percent. Second Semi-Annual Interest on Capital Stock. 
15 per cent. Dividend on Participating Premiums. 

ASSETS. 

State Consols and City (Grossman) Bonds $238,794 35. 

Bank and other Stocks h6,375 00- 

Bills Receivable 242,173 35 

Cash on hand 81,897 75 

Real Estate 29,391 90- 

Harbor Protection Company i ,090 18 

Pi-emiums in Course of Collection 41,888 60 

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109 



LIABILITIES. 

•Capital Stock $375, o<X) 00 

Bills Payable 100,000 00 

"Reserved for Unearned Premiums 70,000 00 

"Reserved for Unpaid Losses, 18S1-S2 6,200 00 

■Reserved for Unpaid Losses, 18S4 30,113 13 

Dividends unpaid 30,298 00 

^Surplus Fund - 170,000 00 

$781,611 13 
L. GRAHAM & SON. 

Book and Job Printing; Dealers in Printers' Supplies, etc. : 99 and 101 Gravier street. 

This one, as the most complete printing oifice in all its appointments in this sec- 
tion, has been selected for representation herein. This book, printed by the house 
•which is the subject of this sketch, is a sufficient indication of the superiority of their 
twork without furthen comment. The house of Graham & Son was established by 
"the elder Graham just after the war, the resources of that period permitting but a mod- 
■erate attempt. In process of time, with the re-establishment of trade, the house pros- 
pered, and has been expanding its operations constantly since. The junior member of 
the firm was admitted in 1880. This house employs about forty men steadily. Its 
specialties are fine book and job work, for which it has better facilities than any local 
^establishment, and which has brought to it a trade from all over the South. The senior 
Graham has been a resident of the city for forty years and he has always b^en esteemed 
.as one of the cleverest in his avocation. Mr. L. S. Graham is a native of the city, and 
-having been bred to that part of the business, manages the commercial concerns of the 
house, which include the agencies of the following manufacturers of printers' material, 
machinery, etc. : 

The Central Type Foundiy's Copper Alloy Type, St. Louis; Campbell Press Co., 
<oi New York; Brown Folding Machine Co., of Erie, Pa.; Golding & Co., of Boston, 
Presses and Printers' Tools; Geo. Mather's Sons, Printing Inks, New York; Hamilton 
.& Katz, Holly Wood Type ; Liberty Job Printing Presses; Black & Clawson, Perforat- 
ors; Bingham, Daley & O'Hara, Roller Compositions; Dorman's " Baltimore Jobber" 
Printing Presses; Child's "Acme" Cutting Machinery, and other large concerns that 
manufacture everything that is required in a printing office. A large and varied stock 
•of all sorts of printers' necessities is carried constantly, so that a newspaper outfit com- 
plete can be furnished in twenty-four hours after receipt of order. Printers themselves, 
they have practical knowledge of what printers want. This firm has a fine display of 
printing presses, types, inks and printers' material at the Exposition, at D-DD, 34-38; 
CC, 36-38; QQ-R, 48-49, Main Building. 

W. D. HOYLE. 

Agent Dupont Powder Co., Hercules Powder Works, and St. Louis Shot Tower Co; 

32 Canal sti'eet. 

Hoyle's gunpowder agency is the old- 
est establishment of its kind in this vicinity. 

-. ■ B Miii i- | — I ^^ ^^® founded in 1864, by J. M. Hoyle, 

■^^^^^^MppWHB^^^a^b. father of the present proprietor, and was 
fjK^^aR5^naJ^gi|^^|^ conducted by the widow of J. M. Hoyle 
WM^'^^PQ^^^^M^S^I^^^ fi'om his death until 1880, when the son 
r///«fe/;^rT^^^|^^^H^^g|j|j^)j| succeeded to the business. The premises 
' " * ''flf I ^^LilfflBTl '^°^^' occupied by the concern are located in 
J'^^J^MwUbE *^^ conspicuous angle formed by the corner 
WSmi^jUbIiI of Canal and Tchoupitoulas streets, from 
which point distribution is made of ammu- 
nition, aH over the South and into Mexico, 
Central and South America. The Dupont 
and Hercules powders have each a world 
wide reputation. The Dupont powder is of 
all grades from sporting to blasting strength. 
The Hercules as its name implies is a powerful composition intended for railroad, mining, 
and other great woi'ks of utility. The merchandise of the St. Louis lead pipe and shot 
■works has a wide spread circulation and is considered, wherever it is in use, the best in 
She market. 




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The Industries of New Orleans. 




>'-C.WALDO N.O. 



DAVID BIDWELL. 

ProprJetor of the Academy of Music, the St. Charles Theater and the Grand Opera House. 

The name displayed at the 
head of this sketch lias been 
famiHar to the public of all 
the principal Southern citie* 
for thirty years and more, 
as that of a great theatrical 
manager. Coming to New 
Orleans in 1S46, Mr. Bidwell 
was for a time in commercial 
affairs, but having drifted 
into the entertainment of 
the public by purchase of the 
well known Phcenix House,, 
he engaged in what he has 
since made the vocation of 
his life somewhere early,_ in 
the fifties. He was manager 
of the Academy of Music 
in 1S55, and the next year 
was in partnership with 
Spaulding & Rogers in the 
amusement line. About the 
close of the war, Messrs. 
Spaulding & Bidwell built 
the Olympic Theater in St. 
Louis, one of the first-class 
houses of the country, and 
leased other fine theaters in 
Memphis and Mobile. They 
played their attractions al- 
ternately on this circuit, thus 
inaugurating the present 
system of traveling combi- 
nations. 

In 1S67, Bidwell, Spauld- 
ing ,and Avery Smith, pro- 
jected and carried out what is now a historical piece of theatrical enterprise, by taking 
the great American Champion Circus to the Paris Exposition of 1S67. In that year they 
had running theaters in New Orleans, Memphis, Mobile, St. Louis, Havana and Paris, 
all of them in successful operation. Since the dissolution of the old firm (1871), Mr. 
Bidwell has conducted his affairs without assistance, and has displayed the same broad 
perceptions as to popular taste and fancy that he did before. At present he has three 
houses running in New Orleans; the Academy of Music, built in 1S53, the scene of 
some of Dan Rice's early triumphs, and having a seating capacity of 2,000; the St. 
Charles, the historical house of the city, in which the elder Booth, Macready, Forest, 
Kean, Julia Dean, Jenny Lind and other great professionals played, and which, like the 
Academy, has been specially refitted and remodelled for the occasion of the Exposition, 
and the beautiful Canal stre'et Grand Opera House, unsurpassed in all the requisites of 
a first-class house on the American continent. Mr. Bidwell is still in his prime, and is 
as progressive, energetic and enterprising as of old. The people of this vicinity have 
reason to be well satisfied with the attractions offered and announced by him for the 
season of 1885. 

WOODWARD, WIGHT & CO. 

Wholesale and Retail Ship Chandlers, Grocers, Commission Merchants, Forwarding and Gencnal 

Agents ; 40 and 42 Canal street. 

A house that had only a quarter of the business that this one enjoys, would still be 
classed in the wholesale district as a very respectable establishment. The size of its 
premises alone is a sufficient indication of its vast resources and patronage. The build- 
ing occupied by it at 40 and 42 Canal street, is 75 x200. 

Thirty accountants and salesmen are required to keep account of stock and direct 
the sales, 'shipments etc. This firm first opened business in 1867, and continued until 
1882 under the name of Woodward & Wight. In that year, Mr. Charles W. Mackie, 



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the third member, was admitted to partnership. All three are men of financial resources, 
recognized as such not only here, but in New York, Chicago, Boston, and the other 
great trading and manufacturing centres. 

The house makes a specialty of Ship Chandlery meixhandize, but that is a small 
part of the stock which it ships to the Gulf region, from the western border of Texas 
to Florida, and from Central American latitudes to the Ohio River. There is nothing 
pertaining to ships or vessels that has been neglected in making up their stock. In- 
cluding and in addition thereto, the firm, besides being large receivers of all kinds of 
groceries and general supplies, is sole agent for: — The Boston Marine Insurance Com- 
pany; The Mexican Central Railway Company Limited; The E. D. Albro Company 
of Cincinnati, large importers of Cabinet Woods; The Averill Celebrated Mixed 
Paints; The Bridgewater Iron Company's Yellow Metal Sheating and Nails; Portland 
Cotton Sail Duck; The American Ship Windlass Co's Steain Power Capstans etc.; 
Empire Chain Works' Coil, Cable and Mill Chain; The Jno. A. Roebling's Sons Co.'s 
Steel Wire Hoisting Rope and Standing Wire and Rigging; Stone's Ship's Pumps and 
Steerers; Carollton, Michigan Oar Factory; Bagnal & Loud's Blocks, all kinds and sizes; 
Leonard and Ellis' Valvoline Cylinder and Machine oils; Downer's 300 degree Fire 
test Mineral, Sperm and other oils; Trenton Rubber Works; Belden & Reinhardt, Oil 
Manufacturers. 

A full line of railway and steamship engineers supplies etc., comprising the most 
complete stock of any house in the United States and including Manila and Hemp 
Rope, Anchors, Boats, Copper Paint and Staple and Fancy Groceries, is always on 
hand. Besides all this Variety the house receives froin the West, Cereals, Meats and 
General Produce. It has the largest receipts of Salt Beef of any establishment in the 
city, being always ready to supply the Export and Marine trade. 

Goods are invariably guaranteed as represented, and if they are not they can be 
returned at the expense of the house, which conducts its business on the old fashioned 
principles of honorable and fair-dealing transactions with all. 

BERNARD KLOTZ & CO. 

Manufacturers o; Crackers, Biscuits, Macaroni, Vermicelli, etc. ; 74, 76, and 7S South Peters street. 

This time-honored establishment, undoubtedly the oldest house in the city, is a 
veritable landmark of the business quarter of New Orleans. Founded at the close of the 
last century (1794) by Mullane, it has kept pace with the progress of the community, 
withstanding all the reverses of the times and weathering all the disasters of ninety 
years. To-day it is recognized throughout the South and Southwest as one of the great 
"business institutions. The conduct of affairs in this house has always been distin- 
guished by that old fashioned integrity, unfortunately so rare nowadays. Bernard 
Klotz & Co., (George E. Courtin, P. A. Joyce and Bernard Klotz) succeeded to the 
business in 18S2, their firm name and designation supplanting that of the philanthropic 
Mai"garet Haughery, whose charities are commemorated in the statue erected in 1883. 

The buildings occupied by this firm on South Peters street are 66 feet front by 135 feet 
in depth, and are three stories high. These imtnense quarters are necessary to accom- 
modate the seventy odd employes, and the improved machinery which consumes in 
manufacturing the firm's products 300 barrels of flour per day. 

There is not a point in the Gulf States that this firm has not dealings with. The 
excellence of its products has been remarked abroad, and in the West Indian and Span- 
ish American States. A specialtj' is made of the ship and steamboat trade. The sta- 
ple manufactures of the firm are bread, crackers of all sorts, cracker meal stock, yeast, 
macaroni, vermicelli, together with everything in the line of fancy biscuits, ship and 
pilot bread. Box 2 117 is the P.O. address ot this house. 

GLOVER & ODENDAHL. 

Commission Merchants : corner of Poydras and Tchoupitoulas streets. 
In the preparation of a volume like the Industries of New Orleans, from the 
contents of which an estimate may be formed of the standing and importance of the 
leading business firms of the city, notice has necessarily been taken of every branch of 
commerce, trade and manufactures, but the most prominent houses only have been se- 
lected for comment. It is with great gratification, therefore, that the subject of this 
sketch, the cominission house of Glover & Odendahl (B. F. Glover and F.J. Odendahl) is 
added to the large number of kindred houses included in the work. But it is by the 
magnitude of their operations, the system of their management, the extent and weight 
of their transactions that they are distinguished, as mnch as by the standing and promi- 
nence of the proprietors themselves. Business confided to them will be attended to 
with regard to the interest of all concerned, faithfully and well. 



112 The Industries of New Orleans. 

CAPT. H. M. ISAACSON. 

General Ag^nt f.)r tlie State of Louisiana of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York: 

No. 48 Carondelet street. 

The subject ot this sketch, Capt. H. M. Isaacson, has been for several years the resi- 
dent agent of the celebrated Manhattan Life Insurance Company, of New York, one 
of the oldest and most secure of the United States Companies. Capt. Isaacson's length 
of service and business career, entitle him personally to a prominent position in a 
work like this, which contains sketches of representative men and establishments 
alone. He is recognized as a skillful manager and man of affairs, having expert knowl- 
edge, and great application for the particular line to which he has devoted his energies. 
In his hands the interests of the company, and of its patrons as well, have been 
shrewdly and conscientiously managed. 

The Manhattan is a sure company. The first consideration of its directors, who 
happily for the assured, are Insurance men, and not mere dummies chosen as 
figure-heads, has been to secure certainty of payment of the sum guaranteed 
in the policies, and after that to reduce the cost to insurers as much as possible. 
Thirty-four years transactions show by the smallness of its death rate, the care and 
judgment of its officers and agents in selecting risks, while the low rate of expenses 
for conducting its business proves that it has been carried to its present unassailable 
position only by cautious and accurate administration. It has assets of over $12,000,- 
000, and a net surplus of $2,000,000. Its surplus shows a larger percentage than that 
of any other company doing business in America. This is its chief recommendation 
to insurers, because it is testimony showing its sound and healthful condition at pres- 
ent, and evidence of perfect security for the future. These facts are particularly' strik- 
ing because of a distrust that has arisen in regard to Life Insurance, on account of 
failures resulting from reckless management and the inordinate prices paid for procur- 
ing business bv wildcat companies. It should be remembered that neither Louisiafna 
nor anv Gulf State has chartered a life insurance company, pure and simple; hence, as 
a choice must be made from abroad, this company with its thirty years of sound busi- 
ness here to recommend it, should have any preference that may exist. 

Applications for rates, tables, terms and other information directed to 48 Caronde- 
let street will be promptly replied to, and every facility put in the way of parties at a 
distance who may have under consideration insurance propositions, to thoroughly un- 
derstand the matters connected therewith. 

THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. 

Sewing Machines: S. E. Rundle, Agent, Central Office, 1S5 Canal street, New Orleans ; Branches at 

Shreveport and New Iberia, La. ; Birmingham, Ala. : Natchez and Vicksburg, Miss,, 

and in Pensacola, Fla. 

The New Orleans agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company has the general 
management and supervision of the Southarn stations mentioned above. A most capable 
and efficient administrator in the person of Mr. S. E. Rundle, has been selected for the 
responsible position thus established. The Singer Company, as is well known, has the 
largest manufactory of the sort in the wide world. It owns three factories in the United 
States, one in Canada and four in Europe. Last year (18S3) this Company sold 610,- 
000 machines, which was seventy-five per cent of all the number disposed of by all the 
the companies. In its various works it employs over 40,000 men, and it has over 1,500 
branch offices, with local agents in every cit}', 'to^vn and village in the country. Singer's 
was the first practical machine sold. Mr. Singer invented the first shuttle and first made 
the sewing machine of practical service. His principle for the machine stitch is still 
unchanged and all the lock-stitch machinery is made after his pattern. 

The Improved Family Singer Machine, with oscillating shuttle, is the latest popu- 
lar favorite. This and all other styles of the machines are sold at 1S5 Canal street, on 
the monthly installment if desired, a liberal discount being given for cash. 

Four floors are occupied by the New Orleans agency. The first floor is devoted to 
the city trade, the second is the general office, the third contains the adjusting depart- 
ment and the fourth is used for a store room. 

Manager Rundle has lived here since 1S63. He came as an officer of the U. S. Ar 
my. He was book-keeper and cashier for the Company at this point until 1S73, when 
he took charge of its affairs. When the Company first opened its offices in this city, 
it was in 1869 at No. 7 Camp street and in a room but 17x30 feet. It now occupies 
more space than all the other sewing machine agencies together. 

The Singer Company is the only one that has prepared for a grand and special dis- 
play in the great Exposition, with steam power. 



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113 



THE PEOPLE'S INSURANCE COMPANY. 

-E, Pragst, President; M. Popovich, Vice-President; P. M. Schneidau, Secretary; 12 Carondelet street. 

Organized in 1871, and reorganized to meet its enlarged business requirements in 

1876, the People's Insui-ance Company takes fire, mai-ine and river risks at the lowest 
"tariff rates. At the present time the company is officered by the gentlemen nained at 
"the head of this sketch. In addition to these executive officers, A. M. Liambias is the 

Fii-e Clerk and J. B. Fassy the Collector. The directors are sound business men, whose 
ifinancial standing. and integrity is beyond reproach. These gentemen are: E. Pragst, 

M. Popovich, B. Saloy, M. Abascal, D. Hughes, A. D. Finley, Theo. L. Sugg, Charles 
Steigler, C. Trumpy, P. Thormaehlen, Peter Blaise, A. Walz, F. Aufmkolk, Wm. Fa- 
;gan, H. .Schroeder, A. Bartholomew, A. Haber, S. M. Miller, George Ellis, J. H. Menge, 

Ferd. Goldsmith, A. Xiques, B. Campiglio, Frank Barker. 

The capital of the company is $100,000. In confoi-mity with the requirements of 

its charter, the company has presented to the public the following figures as its thirteenth 
^annual statement, July i, 1883, to December 31, 1884: 

PREMIUMS RECEIVED. 

On fire risks $250,568 23 

On river risks i7)302 99 

On marine risks 10,127 68 

$277,998 90 
-Add unterminated premiums of 1S83 .0 26,401 09 

$'304,399 99 
Add — 

Profit, loss and savings $ 15,523 61 — $319,923 60 

Deduct — 

Return premiums and cancellations 8,600 31 ' 

"Reinsurances 13, 5^5 55 — 21,125 86 

$298,797 74 
Losses, etc., paid during same period: 

On fire risks $156,660 06 

On marine risks 9>9i6 03 

On river risks 9>857 97 

.Printing and advertising 444 05 

Taxes 3,432 42 

T?ebate 44,424 14 

-Board of Undei-writers ->949 41 

^Expenses, less interest and salvage I3)358 7^ — $ 241,042 79 

•T, . r ... n- ^ 57,754 95 

.Reserved tor unterminated premiums $32,854 95 

Reserved for losses unadjusted and unpaid 14,900 00 

Five per cent, dividend, January, 1884 5)000 00 

Five per cent, dividend, January, 1885 5)000 00 

$57,754 95 

ASSETS. 

Oash $ 14,912 67 

Premiums in course of collection 30,795 59 

P.eal estate 39,017 49 

Bank and other stock and bonds 38,772 76 

Office furniture and fixtures 2,370 21 

Notes secured by mortgages 16,219 7^ 

Notes secured by pledges 6,409 68 

Bills receivable at short terms 5,695 50 

$^54,193 70 
From, the reports of its officers it appears that the company's business is, consider- 
ing the times, exceptionally prosperous. Its country patronage is enlarging rapidly. 
Oareful and discriminating management, combined with liberality towards its insurers, 
lias inspired the property-holding public with confidence in its ability to return them 
tfull indemnity for losses. Office at 12 Carondelet street. 



114 



The Industries of New Orleaks. 



H. HALLER. 

Dealer in Stoves, Tin and Plated Ware, House and Steamboat Furnishing Goods : 55 and 57 Camp street 

Paul and John Haller were the first proprietors of this house. H. Haller, the pres- 
ent owner, succeeded to the business in 1S61, six years after it opened. This is a big- 
establishment, one of the very first class. It employs from 75 to 90 men, in the man- 
ufacture and trade of tinware and house furnishing goods, and ships to Texas, Mexico, 
and the West Indies, besides doing a first-rate city trade. In the line of stoves particu- 
larlv its wares are of great excellence, durability and fine finish, having all the latest 
improvements. Among other favorite brands, maybe mentioned the "Brilliant,"' 
" Favorite," "Early Breakfast," "Capitola," and "Splendid." The three large stores 
60x100 feet on Camp street occupied as warerooms by this house, contain a diversified 
and complete stock of table and pocket cutlery, silver-plated ware. Japanned goods and 
hotel and steamboat furnishing stocks. Everything that goes out of this house is A i, 
in everv particular, whether manufactured by the firm or imported, it being an invariable 
rule inthls establishment to accept no goods for sale that have not already the stamp oi 
popular approval. 

PHILIP HIRSCH. 

Cooperage: Office and Warehouse 11 to 15 Bienville street, corner of Decatur. 

This gentleman was one of the crack workmen in his line before going into busi- 
ness for himself some 25 years ago. McMurray & Hirsch were the founders of the 
fine business that is now his sole possession. 

Mr. Hirsch has lived here a very great many years. He has never been in any 
business but cooperage. He has now about the biggest and longest operated concern 
of the kind in this vicinity. He combines with the cooperage some facilities aside 
from it, for the benefit of the sugar refiners. He furnishes barrels of all kinds for the 
refiners and planters. 

For this and his manufacturing purposes he has an eight horse power engine run- 
ning, and he employs always a strong force of men — sometimes as high as one hun- 
dred. His work goes all over the United States. His specialty is a fifty gallon molasses 
barrel, and he pays particular attention to trimming. He keeps constantly on hand 
sugar hogsheads and sugar barrels, molasses barrels, kegs and hoop poles. His manu- 
factory is corner of St. Louis and Miro streets. Telephone in the ofiice. 

ED. SMITH. 

Manufacturer of Rubber Stamps, Stencils, etc.; Dealer in Seal Presses, Brushes, Inks, etc.; 20 Natches 

street. 

On account of facilities furnished by inventions of his own, Mr. Ed. Smith can do 
work in his line cheaper than any one here, and can even compete with New York. 
He has the finest set of stencil dies in the country, and owns also the largest set, one 
made by himself. These dies he makes for sale to the trade, shipping them as far 
away as the British Provinces. In the stencil cutting and rubber stamps line, his work 
is the favorite in the South and Southwest, regular custom coming to him from as far 
north as St. Louis, and southward into Central America. This is the house that sup- 
plies the banks with stamps and check-protectors. Badges of all kinds, brass checks, 
door plates, medallions, die sinking and metal engraving of all sorts furnished upon 
order. 

Mr. Smi*:h's business methods, as well as the mechanical merits of his wares, 
have received the approval of the entire Southern Section. He is a thorough business 
man as well as a clever artisan. 

J.C. THEARD. 

Cotton Pickery: Chippewa, between Terpsichore and Melpomene streets. 

Amongst those names that are indelibly impressed upon the minds of people inter- 
ested in the cotton trade, that which heads this article, is, from the long connection of 
the claimant thereto with the chief resources of this section, prominent and conspic- 
uous. J. C. Theard has had years of experience with the raising, sampling, distribu- 
tion and manufacturing of the great Southern staple. He is an authority of no mean 
distinction, upon so many of the everyday matters connected with the trade, as to be 
regarded as an expert in it. ■ As now engaged, in the buying, repicking, and restoration 
to the condition of a marketable product, of damaged, inferior and rejected cotton, he 
is developing an unnoticed, although not altogether imknown resource, that should 
be counted in a summary of the Industries of this locality, such as is proposed in these 
brief chronicles of the business concerns of the Crescent City. 



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Mr. Theard's office for the sale and disposition of the renewed materials to brokers, 
shippers, and other dealers, is at 47 Baronne street, in the \evj heart of the cotton dis- 
trict of the city. His pickery is on Chippewa, between Terpsichore and Melpomene 
streets, handy to the points of storage and shipment. Altogether, he employs about 
fifty hands, including accountants, laborers, etc. Although the generous proprietor of 
these works is not conspicuous in the management of the Exposition, he has done his- 
share, with his associates of the trade, in the matter of the funds, and he takes a proper 
pride for New Orleans and the South, in a fitting finale to it. 

MORRIS McGRAW. 

Wholesale Dealer in Wooden, Willow, Glass and Tinware, Paper, Cordage, Fire\^ orks. Fishing Tackle,, 
and General Furnishing Goods, 45 and 47 Tchoupitoulas, 7 to 13 Natchez street. 

If there is^anything from a needle to an 
anchor, as the business card of this house 
facetiously suggests, that cannot be found" 
■within the four walls of its ware-rooms, 
this work, which proposes to deal in facts, 
^\lll forfeit its copyright. It is because of 
the very variety of its diversified stock 
that its patronage is so wide-spread, for 
there is no corner of the South that it has 
not transactions with. For twenty 3'ears 
the name at the head of this chapter has. 
distinguished the premises, corner of 
Tchoupitoulas and Natchez streets, a 
name significant of mercantile probity 
and honorable conduct. 

Among the thousand and one articles 
dealt in by the establishment may be men- 
tioned : 

Axe Handles, Axle Grease, Alum, Bird 
Cages, Barrel Covers ; Brooms, Brushes, 
^ Baskets, Buckets, Blueing, Blacking, all" 
kinds; Bowls and Trays, Bungs and Plugs,. 
Bottles and Flasks, Bath Bricks, Bung 
Starters, Bung Borers, Brass Hand Lamps,. 
N0S.45 & 47 TCHOUPITOULAS ~ST Blank Books,Bar Tumblers, Base Balls and 

Y,9.IU3 8:15 NATCHEZ STREET. Bats, Boys' Carts, Wagons, Velocipedes, 

Wheel Barrows; Butter Paper in Reams and Rolls; Butter Trays, and Prints; Childrens'' 
Carriages; Cotton Twine, Stages, Trout Lines, Rope, Sash Cords. Mops, Cards, Chalk 
Lines; Cedar Churns, Pails, Chests, Faucets; .Counter Dusters, Concentrated Lye; 
Clothes Lines, Pins, Humpers, Baskets; Croquet Sets, Cheese Safes, Corks, Cork- 
screws, Coffee Mills, Curry Combs, Candle Wicks, Clocks, all kinds. Coffee Roasters, 
Cigar Lighters, Chamois; Dippers, Tin, Brittania, Cocoanut; Dusters, Feather, Hemp, 
Hair; Demijohns, Dice, Dolls, Door Mats, Egg Beaters; Fish Hooks, Lines, Poles, 
Line Reels; Flour Bags, Sieves; Fire Crackers, Fire Works, Furnaces, Furnace Stands, 
Field Cans; Faucets, Wood, Metal, Brass, Measuring, Beer, Molasses, Vinegar; Fike 
Nets, Flax Wheels, Gun Caps, Gun Powders, Glassware, Gauging Rods, Hammocks,. 
Horse Brushes, Ham Trj^ers, Hatchets, Ink, Ice Cream Freezers, Ice Boxes, Ice Picks, 
Jugs and Jars, Japan Ware, Julep Straws, Kegs, Keelers, Knife Boxes, Kitchen Crystal 
Soap; Knives, Kiechen, Butcher, Table, Lead Pencils; Lamps, Chimneys, Burners, 
Wicks, Lanterns, Ladders, Lye, Lemon Squeezers, Lard Barrels, Lard Cans, Looking- 
Glasses, Lashes and Whips, Lightning Rod Fixtures, Matches, Measures, Mats, Mar- 
bles, Mops, Mucilage, Mincing Knives, Musical Instruments, Oakum, Oil Cans, Oak 
Ware, Oil Tanks, Oars, Oyster Baskets, Pipes; Paper, Bags, Pads, all kinds; Plow 
Lines, Paper Dishes, Potash, Playing Cards, Potato Mashers, Pencils, all kinds, Poker- 
Chips, Quill Tooth Picks, Refrigerators ; Ropes, all kinds ; Rope Reels, Rolling Pins, 
Riddles, Rat and Mouse Traps, Reddening, Rules, Stationary, Slates, Slate Pencils, 
Stove Polish; Scoops, all kinds; Sealing Wax; Sieves, all kinds; Scrub, Shoe and Stove- 
Brushes; Fancy and Toilet Soap; Sapolio, Sal Soda, Shot, Stone Ware, Tin Ware, 
Tin Ware, Tacks, Trays, Tumblers; Twine, all kinds; Towel Rollers, Trucks; Tubs, 
Painted, Cedar, White Pine; German and French Tapers; Umbrella Stands, Venetian 
Red; Wash Boards, Wood, Zinc, Double, Combination, Patent; Well Buckets and' 
Wheels; Whisk Brooms, Wire Clothes Lines, Willow Ware, Water Coolers, Wooden,. 
Boxes, Yellow Wash or Curcuma. " Everything from a needle to an anchor." 




ii6 The Industries of New Orleans. 

WM. C. STRATTON. 

Wholesale Grocer and Commission Merchant: 115 Poydras street. 

One of the busiest establishments of the wholesale district of New Orleans, fur- 
Tiishes material for this short sketch. Mr. Wm. C. Stratton, the genial and spirited 
proprietor of it, succeeded the firm of Bryant c^ Stratton in the fall of last year. The 
•change has not materially affected the business of the house, and, if anything, is an 
-advantage to it. The house deals mainly in Coffee, Rice, Sugar and Molasses, and 
handles Provisions, Butter and Cheese, on commission. The city and country trade, 
particularly, is catered to. As agent for the Camp-Spring Mill Company, of St. Louis, 
whose standard brands of flour are favorites of this market, it has a profitable and ex- 
panding field to operate in. 

Mr. Stratton is one of the younger generation of merchants, thoroughly imbued 
-with those modern business principles that surprise our elders as much as they delight 
'the purchasing public, who are not slow to recognize merit when it is combined with 
.good bargains. Having relations with shippers of produce not easily obtained, abun- 
dant means and plenty of confidence and energy, Mr. Stratton assumes the sole control 
of the business of his house, with some little satisfaction. On 'Change this establish- 
ment stands high, for in the two years since it began business it has displayed the very 
•qualities that a house should have, to be successful. 

ED. & JAS. O'ROURKE. 

Steam Boiler Manufacturers : 1S3 and 1S5 Fulton, 213 South Peters streets. 

The O'Rourke Boiler making establishment, situated as above, has a reputation for 
thoroughness and mechanical excellence possessed by few similar concerns hereabouts. 
The works were smarted in 1S53 by O'Rourke & Megher, but have been run under the 
designation heading this account since 1872. They employ 75 men, filling orders for 
boilers for sugar houses, saw mills, cotton gins, rice mills, etc. The firm builds all kinds 
of boilers and their fixtures to order, and keep on hand a stock of new and second hand 
ones at all times. P'or the latter purpose they have an immense storage yard where 
'thev keep their surplus stock. 

""The Messrs. O'Rourke own the property on which the shops are situated, and 
being under less expense can do better and cheaper services in their line than less for- 
tunate rivals. Low pressure, locomotive, flued and cylinder boilers, clarifiers, filters 
iind juice boxes are made by them at the shortest notice. They will also make contracts 
•for boilers and all necessarv connections, such as Fire Fronts, Grate Bars, Steam and 
Stand Pipes, Valves, etc.. Chimney and Breeching, all of which will be furnished at 
the lowest foundry prices. All the work done at this establishment will be guaranteed 
■equal in point of 'workmanship and material to any in the city or elsewhere. Planters 
-and merchants are respectfully invited to call and examine their work and prices. Re- 
pairing promptly attended to. 

B. J. WEST'S SON & CO. 

plantation Hardware, Agricultural Implements and Machinery: 115 and 1 17 Magazine street, between 

Lafayette and Poydras. 

B. J. West, an enterprising English inerchant, came to New Orleans about the year 
1S50 or '51. He established himself in the business now conducted by his son, in 1856, 
in conjunction with L E. Vase. From the start the_v were successful in building up a 
large and profitable trade. Mr. West afterward became the sole successor of the firm, 
and when he died was in turn succeeded by his heirs, with his son, W. Y. West, as the 
active partner. The buildings occupied by the house are the largest used by any firm in 
their line, covering, as they do, an area of 120 by i7o feet on Magazine street. Fifteen 
■emploves are required to meet the demands of patrons in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, 
Mexico, and as far south as Central America. Many of the implements dealt in can 
only be purchased from this establishment, they having the exclusive right of sale in 
this market. The very latest improvements in machinery are always kept in store, the 
•firm making it a point to keep pace with the mechanical progress of the day. 

The trade of the house is not confined to any particular locality. It extends where- 
ever the wide-spread commerce of the city is carried. In Mexico and Central America, 
and the Spanish American countries, the goods and machinery of this house seem to be 
•preferred to all others. The annual sales of the imports and manufactures of this com- 
pany excel those of any other house in their line in this city, and the manner in which 
•their business increases is a marvel to the trade. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 




J. J. PAQUETTE. 

Manufacturer of the Sunlight Gas Machine; 49 Chartres street. 

The Sunlight Gas machine was in- 
vented by a citizen of New Orleans, the 
gentleman whose affairs are briefly touch- 
ed upon in this sketch, Mr. J. J. Paquette. 
About twelve years ago, he established 
himself here in the plumbing line, and 
was in that trade in 1S76. In that year 
he devoted all his mechanical skill and time- 
to perfecting the Sunlight machinery, and 
meeting with much success in displaying- 
its merits to the satisfaction of the public, 
he gave to the distribution of this econo- 
mical apparatus his whole attention. The 
usefulness of these machines has now- 
been thoroughly demonstrated, and they 
have long been successfully operated in, 
this section, the favorite device of the 
soi-t. As the only one of the kind manu- 
factured in this section they have had ex- 
ceptional sale. They are made at Mr. 
Paquette's factory, 49Chartres street, and 
from thence are shipped all over the 

=.=^=^=^.^ — world. Agencies for the sale of them have 

been established in Havana, Cuba, in the principal Mexican cities, in the United States- 
of Colombia, in South America, and in all the States of this Union. A branch of the 
New Orleans establishment has been opened in Bordeaux, France, and is run by J. N.. 
Laf argue under the firm name Paquette & Laf argue. 

Mr. Paquette has lived in New Orleans since 1861, and in all his dealings with the 
business world since, has maintained a high character, and complete credit. 

A. SAMUELS, 

The Enterprise Steam Sash, Blind and Door Factory, Planing Mills and Lumber Yards: 170 to iSo St, 
Louis street, head of Old Basin ; Branch Office 32 Carondelet street. 

The proprietor of the well known Enterprise Lumber Yard and Mills, Mr. A. Sam- 
uels, has lived thii-ty years in this state, and has been continuously engaged for all that 
time in the mill business. Foi-merly he was in partnership with Lhote & Co. their 
connection extending over some seven or eight years. In 1881 a change was made 
Messrs. Samuels & West then establishing the Entei-prise Mill, the sole proprietorship, 
being subsequently transferred to Mr. Samuels. The firm is admitted to have the finest 
and inost complete machinery for house Avork in the country. Every part of the ma- 
chinery is new, and the latest labor saving and finishing apparatus has been put into the 
mill. As a consequence the works have acquired a reputation for the excellence of its 
products, which are mainly doors, sashes, blinds, window and door frames, cornices 
rustic siding, etc. A fine trade is done with Louisiana and the Southern States but 
the largest and most profitable business of the mills are its shipments of lumber and 
manufactured stock to Aspinwall and other extreme points, for and on account of the 
Central and South American trade. Mr. Samuels is regarded as a courteous and oblig- 
ing gentleman, whose ample capital and resources give him special facilities for the- 
accommodation of his customers. 

ALBERT MONTGOMERY. 

Live Stock on Commission; Stock Landing, 

This gentleman is a son of the late W. B. Montgomery, the renowed Mississippi- 
breeder of Jersey cattle. He was brought up to that line", and it may therefore be 
safely said of him that he is thoroughly conversant with all that there is to know about 
live stock. Mr. Albei-t Montgomery has been established in this business at the Stock 
Landing for about five years. He deals in cattle, hogs, and sheep, receiving consign- 
ments from all over the country, and selling the same on commission. His patronage 
is not confined to one section of the United States. He has dealings with all of it. He 
has a recognized standing in the Trade and is one of the heavy dealers, with whom it is- 
most satisfactory to have transactions. Mr. Montgomery's P. O. address is Box 3006- 
Communications addressed to him will be promptly responded to. 



ii8 The Industries of New Orleans. 

A. NORDEN & CO. 

Cotton Shippers: 37 Perdido street. 

A. Norden & Co., ot Charleston and New Orleans, are as well known in the Euro- 
pean markets as they are at home. In 1874, this house was established in Charleston, 
S. C, where it is one of the great concerns that control, or at least govern, the market. 
Mr. Norden first ventured his capital in cotton projects in the South, about the year 
3869. His good fortune therein and the congenial circumstances attending his affairs 
have bound him to this branch of trade ever since, although his operations have been 
conducted at widely different points. The many and varied experiences he has had in 
the trade, have given him an insight into the movements of cotton that few dealers pos- 
«ess, and his efforts having been mainly directed in the channel of shipment, he has 
been long regarded as particularly expert in that line. In 1876, Mr. Carl Wernicke en- 
tered into partnership with Mr. Norden, and has had an interest with him ever since. 
Their joint European connections busily employ them during the shipping season, and 
gives them facilities enjoyed by but few of the distributing concerns of this locality. 

Whilst they are to some extent independent of local influences, A. Norden & Co. 
have taken a broad view of the matters connected with the Exposition. The indirect 
benefits accruing to them, in common with all dealers in the staple, were sufficient to 
enlist them, as partakers in the common profits of the cotton production, in the inter- 
national project. Rising, therefore, above the prejudices of sectionalism, they have 
devoted themselves to furthering the display of Southern resource, and are exerting all 
their efforts to advance the scheme toward a successful culmination. They have con- 
tributed freeh' and are talking the matter up wherever their engagements lie. It is true 
that in union" there is strength, but much depends upon individual assistance, and herein 
lies the virtue of their co-operation. 

THE FIRE-PROOF PRESS. 

J. p. Moore, Proprietor: Corner of Front and Robin streets. 

The proprietor of that much favored institution, the Fire-Proof Presi^ and Yards, 
has lived in New Orleans for forty-five years, during which time the business public has 
never had occasion to lose faith in his sterling independence, complete probity and un- 
common sagacity. Previous to the beginning of his thirty years' term of ser\'ice in the 
Cotton trade, he was in the Wholesale Grocery line, the same characteristics distinguish- 
ino- his business methods there that have since been remarked of him in a more extended 
fietd of operation. Having a press of uncommon size and capacity, Mr. Moore enjoj's 
a correspondingly large patronage, which, gradually developed during the long years he 
has been in the Trade, is now the best indication of the prosperity and popularity of 
the o-entleman. The Fire-Proof Press and Cotton Warehouse is just what its name in- 
dicates. The title is not a mere catchword, as in case of other institutions, not half so 
complete in their arrangements to protect the property of patrons as this one is. This 
Press was formerl}' a tobacco warehouse, and was prepared for its present purposes witti 
exceeding care, and upon improved plans. No pains or cost was spared to make it just 
what its title expresses. It is furnished with hose, fire plugs, water supply indicators, 
and firemen specially instructed to their duties in case of accident. It is fitted with a 
Tyler 78-inch Press, capable of compressing 1,000 bales of cotton a day. There is 
warehouse room on the premises for 22,000 bales. The force of employes numbers 
fifty experienced hands. 

The Cotton Exposition and World's Fair has been generously assisted by all those 
eno-ao-ed with the staple, and Mr. Moore has not neglected the obligation that tacitly has 
been^imposed upon all the cotton men. He has been liberal in his encouragement of 
this important scheme, just as he has at other times displayed his spirit for the general 
welfare. Telephone on the premises. 

SAMUEL M. TODD. 

Paints, Oils, Glass, Brushes, Etc.: 61 Magazine Street. 

Samuel M. and William S. Todd began business together in the year 1S4S, to deal 
in painters' stock and materials. Gradually the business was enlarged, and eventually 
the house became one of the solid establishments of New Orleans, known and patron- 
ized in all parts of the South — from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and Texas. 
The house carries the fullest and largest line of paints in this section of the United 
States. As it handles nothing else, it must keep everything that comes under that 
head. Samuel M. Todd is now the sole proprietor. His price list includes white lead, 
paints, glass, brushes, varnishes, linseed, lard and coal oils, resin, naval stores, axle 



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grease, chalk, glue, sand-paper, whitening, and painters' and artists' material gener- 
ally. The house is special agent for the glacier window decorative designs (McCaw 
Stevenson & Orr's patent), made at Linenhall Works, Belfast, Ireland. ' 

This is a series of transparent designs, from the simplest to the most elaborate and 
complex, enabling any person with a reasonable amount of taste and ingenuity to pro- 
duce patterns on windows, having all the beauty of the real stained glass, at a very small 
cost. Unlike many things invented for the purpose of window decoration, this cannot 
be rubbed off the window or defaced by cleaning. Hotel keepers who usually have a 
great number of windows looking backward, will find the Glacier decoration invaluable 
in improving the appearance of their establishments. It is cheap, durable and artistic. 

Besides many other importations, the house has the sole right of sale, or is agent 
-at this point for the following choice wares: Noble and Hoare's celebrated Eno-lish 
varnishes; Harrison Bros. & Co.'s pure liquid paints; Russell Manufacturing Co.'s 
palette and putty knives; Johnston's patent dry-sized kalsomine and fresco paints- 
Elaine, the unrivaled safety oil; John L. Whiting & Son's celebrated brushes; the 
Etowah (Alabama) Metallic Paint; and A. N. Bird & Son's (Cincinnati) Odorless Ma- 
chinery oil. 

JOHN A. WAYNE. 

Agent for Coast Packets to Bayou Sara, Vicksburg, Memphis, and Ouachita River: 52 Carondelet street. 

John A. Wayne, of 52 Carondelet street, has been connected bv business ties with 
the river traffic since his boyhood. For the past ten years he has coniined his transac- 
tions principally to the Commission and Forwarding business, and to the conduct of a 
general Steamboat Agency, lines for which he is specially adapted by experience train- 
ing and tastes. Rates of freight and all other information concerning shipments by 
river, he has at his tongue's end, and he is a noteworthy example of the old fashioned 
-courtesy in transacting business, now unfortunately so rare. 

One of his specialties is the signing of Bills of Lading for River and Coast trans- 
portation. He represents in New Orleans, the Vicksburg and Memphis Packets the 
former of which are the finest boats on the river, and the latter the largest carriers of 
freight. 

Mr. Wayne is also special agent for the yohn W. Can7ion and Ediuard y. Gay 
xmdoubtedly the most elegant craft that run on the river below Vicksburg. Captain 
J. J. Brown of the " Gay " is one of the oldest commanders of this section. He dates 
•back to a period long before the war. The Ed. Richardson now runs between here and 
-Vicksburg. Mr. Wayne represents too, the H. Hanna Blanks for the Ouachita River 
•points, the y. M. White for Vicksburg, Natchez, and intermediate points, the Helena 
and Cha'a. P. Chouteau for Memphis and the bends. Connections are made by these 
boats with all transportation lines at points terminal and en route. 

RICHARD M. ONG. 

Paints, Oils, Building Materials, etc., 92 and 94 Magazine street. 
Richai-d M. Ong is the successor to W. P. Converse, Jr., & Co., havino- been con- 
nected with the house of which he is now the head, for long years, ascending through 
successive stages from a minor position to the proprietorship. His qualifications are 
therefore, those of experience and ti-aining. The house was first established in i86c'. 
Mr. Ong succeeded to the business about four years ago, within which time he has en-^ 
larged its patronage considerably and widened its field of operations. Oils are a 
specialty of this house. A full line of all kinds is kept constantly on hand, including- 
burning, lubricating, painting, and best refined cotton seed for cooking and 'salad pui^ 
poses. The catalogue of wares also includes nails, fire-brick, lime, cement, sand naval 

^stores, packing yarn, brimstone, axle grease, paints, varnishes, glass, brushes, etc' all of 

-which are first quality standard goods. 

MANADE & PEDARRE. 

Country Produce, Cotton, Sugar, Rice ard Molasses: 52 Decatur street, corner of Bienville. 
For the whole of the ten years during which this house has been running it has 
been rated with the best concerns of its kind. Both Messrs. M. Manadeand R. Pedarre 
are well known to the producers of the interior, not alone in this branch of trade but 
in other kinds of merchandising in which at different times they have been engaged 
Their trade is mostly with the country parishes and is largely in Cotton, Rice Sugar 
and Molasses. The house is in uncommonly good repute with everybody who has ever 
dealt with it. It has capital, resources and ci-edit, sufficient for any of its transactions 



I20 The Industries of New Orleans. 

BOISSEAU & MARTINEZ. 

Wholesale Dealers in Hats: lo Magazine street. 

If the enterprise and commercial advantages of a city are more clearly established, 
by one fact more than another, that fact is the rise of new houses of large dimensions 
on the great thoroughfares of trade, by the side of, and to do battle for patronage with, 
houses whose junior members have grown gray in the period of their firm's existence. 
Among such houses in New Orleans that of Boisseau & Martinez takes a prominent 
place. 

Established in iSSo by E. Boisseau and A. A. Martinez, it has given its commercial 
competitors a lesson in energy and perseverance. It has already acquired a local trade 
and business with the interior of this state, as also Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama 
and Florida. Its goods are highly' appreciated, being suitable styles for these markets, as- 
well as of the best manufactured qualities. 

This is a progressive and liberal house in every essential, and one that is ready at all 
times to meet competition, not barring any jobbing house in America. Boisseau &. 
Martinez carry a full and most complete stock, including in it the entire line of Ladies'' 
and Misses' Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats, Flowers and Feathers. 

THE CRESCENT INSURANCE CO. 

W. R. Lyman, President; Clias. H. Dolsen, Vice-President; Chas. E. Rice, Secretary. 67 & 69 Camp 

street, corner Commercial Place. 

This Company, which does a Fire, Marine, and River business, was organized as a. 
Mutual Company in 1849, ^""^ reorganized on the Stock plan in iSSo. 

For over 35 years therefore, it has stood as one of the leading Corporations of the 
Crescent City, maintaining through all these years of change a high reputation for 
promptness, reliability and Conservation. During this period it has paid out over Tew 
Millions of Dollars for losses, showing that its income must have been large, and the 
beneficent results of its policies far-reaching. 

Its present Charter extends to 1979. Its Cash Capital is $600,000. 

The present Board of Trustees is composed of the following well-known gentlemen:. 
Joseph Bowling, Sam'l H. Kennedy, Geo. W. Sentell, Alfred Moulton, W. B. Conger^ 
W. R. Lyman, U. Marinoni, Chas. H. Dolsen, John Calder, A. H. Siewerd, S. C. 
Coulon, Harry L. Flash, J. J. Reiss, Louis Prados, Lucien Delery, Charles New- 
man, N. D. Wallace, Sigmund Katz, M. Gillis, R. F. W. Bachman, C. K. David, Wm. 
Garig, A. Rosenfield, John D. Fisher, Chas. E. Rice, Joseph Kohn, Charles M. 
Whitney, James T. Rodd. 

S. T. BLESSING. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Pictures, Frames, Moldings, Albums, etc.; Publisher of the Louisiana, 
and New Orleans Views, Souvenir View Albums, etc. : 87 Canal street. 

Among the industries that cut no insignificant figure in the sum total of Ne^^r 
Orleans manufactures is that of which the indefatigable and energetic S. T. Blessing, 
of No. 87 Canal street, is a representative, the picture and framing trade. This gen- 
tleman has pursued the engaging calling, of collecting and distributing fine-art en- 
gravings, scenic views, works of merit in water and oil by the recognised masters of 
the times for nearly thirty years. One of his enterprises is the publication of the pho- 
tographic souvenir of New Orleans, containing thirty-six elegant views of the city, 
covering the principal points of interest, and the views of Southern scenery, which 
have been much admired as displaying to the best advantage, the natural beauties of 
the interior of the state. Mr. Blessing employs a strong force in his manufacturing 
department, filling orders from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the adjoining 
states, for frames and moldings, plain, neat, elaborate or costly, as the demand may 
be. The sales of this house closely approach $50,000 a year. The stock includes 
Photograph and Autograph Albums, Scrap and Pocket Books, Stereoscopes and Views, 
Paintings and Engravings, Lithographs and Chromos, Artist's and Photographer's 
materials, and an endless variety of articles of virtu, bric-a-brac, etc. 

Mr. Blessing is himself a man of fine taste in the arts, and is a connoissein* of no 
mean accomplishments. In a quiet way he has done much to encourage the cultiva- 
tion of a taste for art and decoration, not altogether from business motives, but be- 
cause his trade is a congenial employment for him. In all his transactions he ha& 
always been careful, prompt and painstaking, and is in most excellent repute with, 
those who have had dealings with him. 



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F. FREDERICKSON. 

Wholesale and Retail Drug-gist: 139 Canal street, Touro Buildings. 

The pi-edecessor of the present well known proprietor of No. 139 Canal street, was 
a Mr. Symes. He established the business of the house a quarter of a century ago. 
Mr. F. Fredrickson who has been fortj^-five years a resident of New Orleans and all his 
life long in the drug trade, has maintained the house in its present location for sixteen 
years. It contains a stock of drugs, medicines and supplies requiring a strong force of 
employes to handle them. The lower floor is devoted to the retail trade, which remains 
with the house largely on accovint of the reliability of its prescriptions and merchandise. 
The following, among other popular proprietary articles can only be obtained in genu- 
ine packages at this establishment: 

Burnett's lodo-Sarsa (the great blood purifier) ; Liebig's Extract Malt (with all its 
combinations); Cordial Elixir of Bark and Iron; Lethean Liniment; Pulmonic 
Cherry Cordial; Compound Pulmonic Paste; Chlorate Potash Lozenges; Compound 
Syrup Hypophosphites; Hufeland's Worm Lozenges; Essence Ginger; Pure Berger 
Cod Liver Oil; Pure Berger Cod Liver Oil, with Soluble Phosphate Lime; Extract 
Witch Hazel: Gregory's Liver Tea; Richard's Carbolic Salve ; " Emodina" (for Ring- 
worm and Tetter); Quinine Hair Restorer; " Philokon " Hair Restorer, Onorato's 
Wood Violet Cologne; Sea Salt (for baths); Rosodonto Tooth Powder; Rosodonto 
Tooth Wash; Mirabelle Toilet Powder; Carbolic Antiseptic Soap; Chardan's Cele- 
brated Extracts ; Chardan's Celebrated Toilet Powder; Poudre Celeste Satinee; Hum- 
phreys' Homoeopathic Medicines. 

This house stands high in the general repute. It does a fine trade, and is a most 
creditable representative of the drug trade of New Orleans. 

A. SOCOLA. 

Louisiana Rice Depot: 13S and 140 Decatur street, corner of Toulouse. 




If there is one man who, more than a.ny other, deserves to be credited with foster- 
ing the rice interests of the State, it is the subject of this sketch. He is certainly the 
oldest dealer in the State. Twenty-five years ago there was but little of this great staple 
planted, and what there was harvested was all cleaned by horse-power and put into 
sacks. Now by means of facilities and improvements which have been furthered by 
such men as him who is here described, it is cleaned by steam machinery, is barreled 
afterward, and has been made one of the principal industries of the South. Mr. Socola 
has lived here about all of his life and has been in no other business than this for thirty- 
five years. His trade is principally with the lower coast, and is exclusively in rice. He 
is agent for the Empire Parish Mill Co., the Farmers' Mill, the Franklin Steam Rice 
Mill, and other concerns, all of which are in Plaquemine parish. His principal trans- 
actions are in supplying the wholesalers, shippers, commission merchants, etc. As an 
expert in rice and rice products, he is unexcelled, and as a business man well regarded. 
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122 The Ixdustries of New Orleans. 

WILSON, CHILDS & CO. 

The Pliihidelphia Wagon Works, James Moillton, Manager. Manufacturers of Farm and Planlalion 
Wagons, Carts, etc.: No 6S, 70 anj 72 Carondelet street, and 16 and iS Perdido 
street, New Orleans. 

1829, and for the past fifty years it has been represented in New Orleans bj^ an agency 
in its own commadious store-rooms. It is, without doubt, one of the oldest houses of 
the Crescent Citv. The members of the firm are Charles N. and J. Henry Childs, 
Mr. W. M. Wilson having retired during the past season. The energetic and clever 
manager fc«- the house is James Moulton, who has occupied that responsible position 
for the past eleven years. 

Here can be found a large and most complete assortment of Wagons, Carts, Draj's, 
Wheelbarrows, Timber Wheels and Cotton Wagons of all sizes, made of the very best 
material, of first-class workn-tanship and sold at the most reasonable terms. Pur- 
chasers will find it to their interest to call and examine before purchasing elsewhere. 

Wilson, Childs & Co.'s vehicles have attained to a well deserved celebrity, 
warranted by the durability and satisfaction that they have always given. A.11 wagons 
etc. sold out of this establishment are guaranteed to last a certain period without re- 
pair, according to the use to which they are to be put. 

In fifty-five years manufacturing, the Philadelphia Wagon Works has turned out an 
enormous product, running up into tlie millions, and ha\'e constantly maintained the 
reputation acquired early in their experience with the trade. The agency at New 
Orleans supplies all the adjacent region and the Spanish-American states. We are 
particularlv pleased to have opportunity to call the attention of our readers to this 
house and its wares. 

GUMBEL BROS. & MAYER. 

Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants: 36 Perdido street. 

Personally, the members of this firm are well regarded. Mr. F. Gumbel has resided 
hereabouts for twenty-five years. He was in the Wholesale Notions business until 1SS2. 
Mr. C. Gumbel had been about eight years doing the buying and assisting in the man- 
at^ement of the busiiiess of Gumbel & Mayer's General Merchandise stores in Louisi- 
ana, when the change was made to the cotton traffic. Mrs. M. Mayer {in commetidavi) 
is the widow of the late Max Mayer, who died about a year ago, after having been in 
the firm from its start. The house embarked in cotton and the staples exclusively about 
three years ago. Mr. C. Gumbel is its representative in the Cotton Exchange. The 
trade of Mississippi and Louisiana is the best field this house finds for its opera- 
tions. The movements of sugar, molasses and rice, are considerably influenced by the 
operations of this firm, which has great resources and ample capital. C. Gumbel and 
Mrs. Mayer own several large plantations, which fact, being generally known, gives an 
additional stability to the house. 

Besides their Exchange assessment, the Gumbel Brothers have rendered efficient 
and gratuitous services to the Exposition management. They have taken something 
besides a mere business interest in the grand project, and have shown their approval of 
it and sympathy for the end desired to be obtained, by numerous kindly and open- 
handed actions. 

THE TEUTONIA INSURANCE COMPANY. 

Fire River and Marine Risks; No, 35 Camp street: Wm. B. Schmidt, President; Albert P. Noll, 

Secretary. 

The Teutonia Insurance Company of New Orleans was organized in 1S71, and was 
reincorporated in 1S76, with a cash capital of $250,000. It has been one of the most 
successful of the local companies. The Fire Insurance Companies of New Orleans, like 
her banks, are noted for prudent and careful management, a character that the com- 
pany which is the subject of this sketch enjoys to a degree that has extended its opera- 



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123 



tions all over the country. The first president of the company was Emil Bode. Mr. 
F. Rickert, who was elected vice-president at the same time still holds the otfice and is 
the general manager of the company. He has been a prominent figure in the whole- 
sale grocery trade for the last eighteen years and is much esteemed. The present sec- 
retary, Mr. Albert P. Noll, is an underwriter of wide and varied experience. 

The directors are.- H. Buddig, J. B. Camors, M. Frank, E. Fi-ank, R. Frotscher, 
F. Fisher, H. R. Gogreve, S. Gumbel, A. J. Gomila, Gilbert H. Green, S. Hyman, 
Julius Keiffer, J. H. Keller, C. H. Miller, John Nelson, Frank Roder, J. E. Rengstorff, 
F. Rickert, Louis Ruch, A. G. Ricks, Wm. B. Schmidt, H. Schultz, Louis Schwartz, 
X. Weissenbach, all men whose credit is good abroad as well as at home in mercan- 
tile and financial circles. The following figures from the last annual report of the com- 
pany, fully explain why the company ranks so high in the estimation of property 
owners : 

SWORN STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 18S4. 

Premiums received — 

On Fire Risks $ 25 1 ,093 38 

On Marine Risks 31,887 91 

On River Risks 18,606 98 

_ , $ 301,587 37 

Deduct — 

Fire Losses Paid $ 75,^98 54 

Marine Losses Paid 17, 159 §7 

River Losses Paid 8,593 41 

Rebate and Commissions 37,901 59 - 

Reinsurances 36,228 34 

Return Premium 12,390 08 

Agency Expenses 2,200 40 

Expenses, Taxes and Licenses, less interest 8,016 52 

Profit and Loss 334 55 — $198,055 30 

$ io3j£64 07 

■Reserved for Risks not terminated, Dec. 31, 1884 $ 98,764 07 

Ten per cent, interest on Capital Stock and Five per cent, on 

net participating premiums 68,764 07 

Ten per cent, interest on Capital Stoek for the year 25,000 00 

Reserved for Unadjusted Losses 9,800 00 

$ 109,054 92 

ASSETS : 

Cash on hand $ 49,526 33 

United States Bonds 67, 100 00 

Cit}' Consolidated Bonds 43,125 00 

Other Stocks and Bonds 18,380 00 

Loans on Mortgage 32,591 66 

Loans on Pledge, Premium Notes and Bills Receivable 143,131 46 

'Premiums in course of collection 34,305 72 

Real Estate, No. 35 Camp street 32,750 00 

Office Furniture 1,000 00 

$ 422,000 17 

LIABILITIES : 

'Capital Stock $ 250,000 00 

Reserve Fund , So, 000 00 

Reserved for unterminated Premiums 68,765 07 

Interest and dividends unpaid 936 10 

TJnadjusted and unpaid Losses 7,800 00 

Interest and Dividend due January, 1884 - 12,500 00 

$ 422,000 17 
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, held on the 15th day of Jauary, 18S5, it 

Tvas resolved to declare a second semi-annual interest of 5 per cent, on the capital 

«tock, making 10 per cent, per annum, payable on demand. 
This company is as well known in Europe as here. 



124 The Industries of New Ori-eans. 

STERN'S COMMISSION HOUSE. 

Sol. Stern, Manager: 7S Decatur street. 

Mr. Solomon Stern, although not having business relations with that company 
now, was the founder ot the well known Stern's Fertilizer and Chemical Company. 
His name is still the commercial designation of that concern. He is a speedy man ire 
his undertakings, was the first to manufacture Stern's bone fertilizer in New Orleans, 
and was the sole agent for the Southern States. 

He has lived here some eighteen years, always having connection with that sort of 
business. In 1SS2, he enlarged his operations, and founded the establishment of which 
this account treats, combining the sale of fertilizers, etc., with a commission trade in 
countrv produce. He is prompt in filling orders from the interior for merchandise, and 
makes "liberal advances on consignments. The fertilizers that he now sells are a fine 
St. Louis manufacture and are warranted first quality. He handles hides, pelts, wool,. 
moss, beeswax, honey, tallow, corn, oats, bran, hay, apples, potatoes, onions, cabbage,, 
rough rice, eggs, poultry, game, metals and all kinds of country produce, is sole agent 
for the Sol. Stern's pure ground bone, raw bone super-phosphate, and bone black, and. 
pays the highest market price for dry bones. P. O. Box 2740. 

PENN'S COTTON PRESS. 

J. p. Parker and G. E. Pitcher, Lessees: Corner of Terpsichore and Tchoupitoulas streets. 

The Penn Cotton Press was a favorite storage yard and compressor, fitU' 3'ears ago>, 
although the institution presents a remarkable improvement on the crude methods in 
vogue at that early date. The concern was named after its founder, Mr. D. B. Penn, 
a man of some importance in those days, and considered to be a live individual. Messrs^ 
Parker & Pitcher are the lessees of the premises, and of the plant. They have within 
the past few vears greatly enlarged the compressing capacity of the place, by putting; 
in one of the" fine Morse 84-inch cylinder compressors, which has a capacity for working 
Soo bales a day. Some fifty hands are employed in and about the place, which covers- 
the whole area bounded by Tchoupitoulas, Terpsichore, Hunter and NeAv Levee streets,. 

The warehouse and yards are prepared to receive iSjOOO bales. The sheds are all. 
fire-proof, every necessary precaution in the way of fire plugs and hose, water supply,, 
indicators, etc., having been adopted, to increase the safety of the valuable contents of 
the place. In a special department, the Press n>anufactures its own hoops and buckles- 
for the purpose of baling. Every facilitv that the ingenuity of exp-rienced cotton 
operators can devise is adopted to accommodate the trade. The Press has a good city 
trade, but takes many orders from the interior. The business practices of the office are- 
just and agreeable. The lessees are accounted popular on account of their civility and 
courtesy. ' 

LAFITTE & DUFILHO. 

Commission and Real Estate: 19 St. Louis street. 

Bv all odds the oldest house in the business of country produce and lands, is that 
which" is herein described. Excepting perhaps one of the Insurance Corporations, its- 
foundation antedates that of any business establishment in New Orleans. Its history 
began with the adventure of L. Millaudon into merchandising, sevent}- odd vears ago. 
The course of the succession since includes such well known tradesmen as Ouertier & 
Boutin, Quertier & Albert, I. Albert, Leopold Icamet, Icamet, Quertier & Co., so 
that it may be seen, that the personnel of the house has always been distinguished. 

Messrs. Chas. Lafitte and Alfred Dufilho are the proprietors at present. To the 
mercantile community, these names are sufficiently well known, without further in- 
troduction. Both of the gentlemen began their business lives with the house, were 
trained to its concerns, and have remained with it uninterruptedly from their first days' 
service. . 

Mr. Lafitte was employed as book-keeper for the establishment in 1S47. He ob- 
tained an interest in 1855. Mr. Dufilho has been with the house since 1S52, com- 
mencing like his associate, as an employe, but aftenvards acquiring a partnership about 
the opening of the war. From 1S60 or '62 until 1871, he managed the Paris branch 
office of the house, and returned here in the latter year when this department was dis- 
continued. 

The stability and conservatism of this solid concern, is happily illustrated by the- 
fact that, although the proprietorship has changed with the natural course of humane 
events, many times in the three score and ten years of the life of the old house, its lo- 
cation has steadfastly been maintained upon one spot. The transactions of the house^ 



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as has been intimated, are in the Louisiana staples and lands. It must not be thought 
that the age of the house indicates any lack of enterprise or activity, for in these lines 
of business, its length of service has rather added to its other resources, reputation as 
-an authority. Purchasers of country property will find it to their advantage to have 
the knowledge and experience of the gentlemen whose names adorn this page, at the 
head of this account of them. The producers of the interior can find no fairer treat- 
ment than at this establishment. 

Mr. A. Baudean has been with the firm twenty years, and is now admitted to a 
partnership. 

CRESCENT COTTON PICKERY. 

G. Kahn, Proprietor: Corner of Market and St. Thomas streets. 

The largest and finest outfit in this line of business to be found in New Orleans is 
that of the pickery, which is described as follows : It covers a third of a square of 
ground; it employs fifty men and women; its trade comes to it from all parts of the 
South; it has been running for twelve years uninterruptedly, under one management; 
it is the most thorough and complete in a business way, as well as mechanically. 

Mr. Gabriel Kahn, its proprietor, has been living in New Orleans now o-oing on 
thirty years. As buyer for Lehman, Abraham & Co., for about seven years before he 
established his pickery, he was extremely well and favorably known to the trade, which 
fact doubtless recommended him for the patronage his concern now enjoys. He does 
the repairing and rebaling for about twenty of the largest cotton factors in this localitv; 
"buys rejected and damaged cotton, and works it over for sale to brokers and shippers. 
"Bv repairing is meant, as it may perhaps be well to explain, the removal of the dam- 
^aged stuff from the bale and rebalng for the compress. 

Mr. Kahn is regarded as an eminently trustworthy business man by all of those 
•who have had dealings with him. With others of his line, he was solicited to assist the 
Exposition project. His response was prompt and satisfactory. 

CHAS. H. ADAMS. 

Manufacturers' Agent; Broker for the Wholesale Grocery trade: S2 Tchoupitoulas street. 

For the four years in which he has done business as broker and agent at 82 Tchoupi- 
toulas street, Mr. Chas. H. Adams has shown himself to be a competent and careful 
manager of mercantile affairs. He has had transactions with all the large houses of 
this city and the interior. Amongst other standard and celebrated goods for which he 
holds the special agency, may be mentioned Geo. V. Hecker & Co.'s Self-raising Buck- 
wheat, Oatmeal, etc.; the Fruit Preserves, Jellies, Jams and Butters made by the cele- 
"brated P. J. Ritter Conserve Company, of Philadelphia; Colburn's Spices, hermetically 
sealed Mustards, and Blueing, and Mott's New York Cider; all of which goods are 
regarded as the perfection of their sort. 

Mr. Adams is noted for his fine judgment in the matter of Teas. This is his par- 
ticular specialty. He always carries large lines of samples from the celebrated house 
■of A. Colburn & Co., of New York and Philadelphia. In whatever merchandizing he 
engages, Mr. Adams is universally regarded as a straight forward, trustworthy and clever 
iDusiness man, and as a broker of uncommon sagacity and shrewdness. 

H. S. SMITH, JR., & CO. 

Clotton Brokers at 51 Carondelet street (up stairs) : Cotton Gins (Smith & Jamison) Religious, near St. 
James: Cotton Pickery, Race and Religious streets. 

From the number and variety of the enterprises enumerated above in the headlines 
to this sketch, it may readily be seen that the proprietor thereof is exactly what is col- 
loquially known as a " live man " in his business. Mr. H. S. Smith has his capital in- 
vested in the cotton trade, and his expectations are all based upon the success of the 
matters connected with the trade. Hence the interest he has taken in the Exposition, 
-and in conjunction with his partners, the liberal and hearty support he has given that 
popular Southern event. 

Mr. Smith has lived in New Orleans some twenty years. He is thoroughly imbued 
with the ideas of this section, and may truthfully be said to be much prejudiced in its 
favor. His divers business interests attach him strongly to a community where pros- 
perity and success have attended his efforts to raise the tone of manufacturing and com- 
mercial industries. 

^ The ginnery run by Smith & Jamison on Religious street, employs a process for 
which they have the sole right, and is not only the finest but the best of its kind in this 
Socality. It has been especially prepared for "the cleansing of foreign substances from, 



126 The Industries of New Orleans. 

and the ginning of Sea Island and Upland Cotton. The firm guarantees to take loose 
cotton and to make it straight, thus enhancing the value of this inferior staple from a 
half cent to one and a half cents per pound. Mr. Smith is the sole proprietor of the 
pickery at Race and Religious streets, but the other operations ffre conducted by him- 
self and Mr. Jamison jointly. The pickery, like all the rest of such institutions, buys 
damaged and rejected cotton, and works it over for brokers and shippers, thus adding 
something to the general -wealth by utilizing what would otherwise go to waste. Thrifty 
and intelligent management are characteristic of this as of other branches of the bust 
ness. The credit and responsibility of all these concerns is far above the average. 

R. L. MAUPIN & CO. 

Live Stock on Commissson : Main Office, Mobile, Ala. , Bnmch at the New Orleans Stock Landing. 

R. L. Maupin & Co., are well known in Mobile as the heaviest commission dealers- 
in live stock in that vicinity. The natural expansion of their business there having- 
compelled them to seek a broader outlet for their trade, on November ist, last, they 
opened a branch office at the New Orleans Stock Landing, being attracted hither, also, 
by the superior transportation facilities of that central distributing point. 

Mr. fohn Mumford manages this branch for the firm. Having been connected 
with the'cattle trade for years at Uniontown, Ala., it may be relied on that he is thor- 
oughly competent to discharge the duties entrusted to him, not only to the satisfaction 
of his'emplovers, but to that of their customers as well. Parties having dealings with 
him will find him a most agreeable gentleman to treat with. The agency of course is 
backed bv all the strength, resources and capital of the main concern in Mobile, the 
name of Mr. Maupin being sufficient in that respect to ensure its stability. Commis- 
sion services invariably prompt and full returns made therefor. 

HYMAN, LICHTENSTEIN & CO. 

Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants: 34 Perdido street. 

Sam Hvman and Hart Lichtenstein established this house in 1878, Mr. Jonas Hiller 
acquiring his interest three years later. All three have a personality aside from their 
cotton operations. Mr. Hyman is a member of the firm of Hyman & Bro., of Summit, 
Mississippi — General Merchandisers. He is a director of the Teutonia Insurance Com- 
pany, of New Orleans. He has made New Orleans his home since 1S7S, and has landed 
interests and other investments in the city and Mississippi. Mr. Lichtenstein had lived 
here for more than twenty years, and was experienced in various mercantile lines when 
he adopted the factorage business as his vocation. Mr. Hiller was a business man of 
Summit, Mississippi, before his removal to the Crescent City, which, as a wider field 
for his energy and aspirations, attracted his attention some four years ago. All three 
of these partners have memberships in the Cotton Exchange. 

The trade of this house lies principally in this State, in Mississippi and in Texas. 
It has a widespread and profitable patronage, which is retained by it because of its 
accommodating and clever methods of doing business, and it has thus become, in a 
short time, one of the leading houses of the day. The subscription of this firm to the 
Exchange's Exposition Funds, was becoming its standing on 'Change. The house, as 
may be gathered from this account, is one of the firmest, most active and influential of 
its line. 

THEO. BRIERRE & SON. 

Sugar, Molasses and Rice Brokers: 33 North Peters street. 

Among other notable men of the Sugar Exchange, the senior member of this 
house takes a conspicuous place. He has been interested in the sugar trade since 1S51,. 
and certainly knows all the ins and outs of supply and demand. Associated with him 
in the house at 33 North Peters, is his son Maurice E. Brierre, who having been bred" 
to the trade is nearly as familiar with its characteristics. This house has transactions 
with all parts of the'United States. The elder Brierre is a man of some distinction 
aside from his business. He has lived here some forty odd years and has obtained 
recognition and influence. He is a director of both the New Orleans Insurance Company 
and the New Orleans Insurance Association. He is one of the Exposition Committee, to 
whom has been confided the representation of the French interests of New Orleans, 
and is prominent otherwise 

This house is thoroughly trustworthy, and entirely reliable in every commerciaB 
sense. Transactions with it are bound to be satisfactory. 



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THE LOUISIANA SUGAR REFINING CO. 

John S. Wallis, President; Wm. B. Schmidt, Vice- President; J. P. Eggleston, Secretary; Corner of 
Front and Customhouse streets. 




The largest svigai- refinery in the South is the one owned by the Louisiana Refin- 
ery Co., of New Orleans. Its premises, 120 by 206 feet, built in 18S4, contain machin- 
ery and apparatus of the latest and most approved pattern. The filter house is the only 
ten-story building in the city, and is a more massive structure than the U. S. Custom 
House. The refinery employs about 150 hands. It sends its sugars, which are favorite 
in all the markets where they have been introduced. North, East and West to com- 
pete with the best products of those sections. Representing the greatest industry of 
the State, as a successful and thoroughly well managed local manufacturing concern, 
this refineiy is a credit to the enterprise and spirit of its energetic founders. 

JOHN CALDER & CO. 

Sugar Factors and Western Produce Dealers: 97 and 99 Peters street, corner of Lafayette. 

John and D. R. Calder comprising the house above mentioned, have been in busi- 
ness since 1864, and may therefore be considered, as a representative house, to have a 
claim for space in this work- The natural course of trade with the sugar parishes 
obliging a general exchange of commodities, this house does not confine itself to one 
line, but diversifies its business, as the farmer does his crops, to suit the demands of the 
seasons and the different localities. Besides trading in sugar and western produce, as 
appears from these headlines, this house has a large trade in hay, corn, oats, bran and 
stock feed of all sorts, besides groceries and staple provisions. Buyer and seller alike 
commend the intelligent judgment and discriminating care with which this house has 
fostered and protected the interests of both producer and consumer, during the twenty 
years of its operation, and without prejudice to other houses in its line, it maybe 
said that in this respect, its policy is well worthy of imitation. 

CLARK & MEADER. 



Importers and Dealers in Fancy and Staple Groceries, Wines and Liquors; 16 and 18 Carondelet 
street. Branch, corner St. Charles and Napoleon avenue; also corner Magazine and 

St. Andrew streets. 

Clark & Meader are familiar names to the households of New Orleans. Three dif- 
ferent establishments are conducted by this enterprising firm, the main concern at 16 and 
18 Carondelet street and the two branches which supply the immense local patronage of 
the house, situated at the corner of St. Charles and Napoleon avenue and at the corner 
of St. Andrew and Magazine streets. This house has a reputation for the quality of the 
goods kept by it, and for dispatch in filling orders. In the line of fancy groceries, for- 
eign wines and liquors, condiments, spices, etc., special pains are taken in the selection 
of importations, and the best grades only are dealt in. Sheldon W. Clark and Herman 
Meader are the proprietors of the house. 



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The Industries of New Oreeaxs. 




AYCOCK, MICHELL & CO. 

Commission Dealers in Cattle, Hogs and Sheep: Stock EaniHng^, New Orleans; P. O. Box 505 

This, the strongest and oldest house in the business, was 
established in 1S52 at the stock yards bv J. T. Aycock. For 
about seven years back the following gentlemen have been 
associated with him as partners^-Henry Michell, James Gitz- 
inger and W. Frank, all of them very old residents of this vi- 
cinity, and lifelong dealers in cattle. Mr. Aycock has been 
living in New Orleans since 1S46, and has been in the trade 
since iS^-; Mr. Michell is a native of the city. His connec- 
tion with the trade began about fourteen years ago. Mr. Gitz- 
inger has a thirty-five years record in this line, and Mr. Frank 
has put in at least twenty of the thirty-eight years he has been 
in the city at this one avocation. 

It will thus be seen that in the matter of experience and 
age, the house wants for none of those essentials, which, gives 
a business concern standing. It lacks nothing in the wav of credit, capital or resources to 
make it complete; and, having connections of so many years standing, its facilities for 
serving the public, either upon commission or otherwise, are unsurpassed in this market. 
It has arrangements with correspondents all over the Southern and Western States 
for the disposition of the li\e stock of the various sections, and is everywhere regarded 
as a house that is not onl_N- safe, but profitable and agreeable to have transactions with. 
Cattle, hogs and sheep are its specialties. 

JOHN T. HARDIE & CO. 

Cotton Fac'.ors and Commisson Merchants: 67 Carondelet street, corner of Ptrdido. 

Mr.;john T. Hardie as President of the Mutual National Bank, and Wm. T. Hardie 
as Director of the Home Insurance Company, and President of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association, ha\e claims to recognition aside from their every day vocation, but it 
is by their connection with the great Southern industry, the distribution and sale of 
Louisiana staples that they are best known. These gentlemen, with Mr. T. G. Hardie, 
are members of the house w'hose offices are located at the corner of Carondelet and 
Perdido streets. This establishment has a history replete with incidents of mercantile 
interest, for it has been thirty-five years one of the foremost houses of its line, with 
transactions in\olving the producers of e\ery Southern State and the consumers of 
foreign ports. Although a general commission business is transacted, the house has 
achieved its greatest commercial successes in the cotton trade, and this line is therefore 
a specialty of the concern. Aside from this employment, the brothers Hardie have al- 
ways displayed a certain public spirit that has earned them the respect of all good peo- 
ple. In the development of the scheme for a grand World's Fair, now happily nearing 
a successful conclusion, they were not slow to assist with their counsel, and this en- 
couragement they ha\e followed with substantial aid to the full extent of their large in- 
terests in the community. In business affairs they ha\e inxariably conducted their 
house upon high moral principles, displaying also those other characteristics of the 
true merchant, independence, liberality and judgment. John T. Hardie & Co., Cotton 
Factors, may safely be presented as true representatives of their line in New Orleans. 

THOS. H. DILLARD. 

I^ive Stock sold on Commission : Office at the .'■ tock Landini;'. 

The gentleman whose affairs furnish the material for this sketch, has been a resident 
of this section for about four years, and nearly all of that time has been in the cattle 
trade. He was born in Alabama and came here from Mississippi, in both of w^hich 
States he followed the same avocation, so that it may easily be understood that he is 
well posted in the business. In point of fact, he has been raising and shipping cattle 
all his life, and was l^red to the business. 

His principal business transactions are with the shippers of the Southern and 
Western Stales, cattle, hogs and sheep being his specialties. His sales average 1,500 
head of cattle (exclusive of sheep and hogs) per week, a fact which best illustrates the 
extent of his business, and the confidence reposed in him. He is a thorough business 
man, and is of an accommodating disposition, active and energetic in all that he 
attempts. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 129 

JOSEPH P. MACHECA. 

Fruit and Commission Merchant: ii Front and 14 Fulton streets. 

J. P. Macheca, Sr., one of the most enterprising and reputable merchants of his 
time, established the business still maintained at No. 11 Front and 14 Fulton streets 
by his live and worthy successor, J. P. Macheca, Jr., in the year 1S79. As now con- 
ducted by the younger Macheca, the trading with the tropic ports for fruits and produce 
is the chief feature of the business, but the demand for domestic^ruits and nuts is not 
altogether unappreciated. In other words, the house does a general commission and 
fruit business. Having established itself thus substantially, the house may be truthfully 
:said to enjoy the cream of the intertropical trade. Mr. Macheca's reputation in busi- 
ness matters is that of a most courteous and competent gentleman. On this account, 
as well as for the excellence and variety of his stock, shippers often prefer dealing with 
him before any other firm. 

Mr. Macheca was one of the first to foresee the expansion that mus*: take place in 
the fruit trade with the Western markets, and has taken advantage of that change with 
true business sagacity. Packing and shipment have been reduced at this establishment 
to an exact science, and purchasers from abroad can rest assured that by dealing with 
this house they run as few risks as circmnstances permit. Commission orders are 
promptly attended to, and margins ai-e lightened so that shippers share with the house 
-a fair proportion of the profits in all transactions. Liberal advances made to consignors. 

THE NEW ART GALLERY. 

N. Wmther & Co., Phc tographers : 153 and 154 Canal street. 

This gallery is managed by a firm of new-comers, who are, however, artists of 
twenty years' experience in Texas and other parts of the country. They do photo- 
graphic work exclusively, all their pictures being taken by the new instantaneous pro- 
cess, by which many of the defects and inconveniences of the old methods are ovei^- 
■come or avoided. It saves time and the sitter's patience. It ensures accuracy and 
finish. And it gives the photographer an opportunity to perform his labor at less 
expense, a circumstance, of course, that redounds to the advantage of the patron, the 
margin of profit permitting not only a reduction of prices, but enabling the artist to 
put more spirit into his art. These special features of this fine, neat and commodious 
jgallery, will commend themselves to the public, and Messrs. Winther & Co. ha^•e un- 
doubtedly a promising and prosperous future before them, since there is ample room 
and patronage here for first-class photographers, as has been demonstrated by the success 
of those long established. 

E. M. HOGAN & CO, 

Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants : 44 Union street. 

W. H. Hogan laid the foundation of this house in 1865. The business was directed 
by him until his demise in 1875, when his son, E. M. Hogan, continued the trade under 
the firm name of Craig & Hogan, and later as above displayed in these headlines, the 
firm now consisting of E. M. Hogan and H. F. Wai-ner. Both gentlemen were born 
and bred here, their business training having been gained in cotton transactions, to 
■which line they have paid almost exclusive attention, coupling with it as may be re- 
marked, however, a general commission business. Liberal advances are made b}' this 
house on all consignments of cotton and prompt returns therefor upon other disposi- 
tion. All orders for merchandise are dispatched promptly and in a general way 
it may be said that this house is one ^of the most competent to perform services of a 
commercial nature in business in the Crescent City. It is a live house, awake to the 
business methods of the present, and thoroughly responsible in all its undertakings. 

H. R. GOGREVE. 

Wholesale Grocer, Importer and Dealers in Wines and Liquors; 76 and 7S Tchoupiloulas and 21 and 
23 Commerce street, between Poydras and Latayette streets. 

Twenty-live years old is the house owned by H. R. Gogreve. Its business has in- 
creased commensurately with that lapse of time. This is because the trade has 
teen exclusively confined to the best lines of goods, these to be disposed of as the ex- 
tensive facilities therefor Avill permit. In the commercial world, the principles that 
"have been applied to the conduct ofthis vast establishment are thoroughly appreciated, 
and no house stands higher in the estimation of those who barter and exchange than 
Ml". Gogreve's. 



130 The Industries of New Orleans. 

A. K. SEAGO & CO. 

Brokers and Commission Merchants; Specialties, Sugar, Molasses, Rice and Coffee: 27 North Peters 

street. 

The partners in this liouse are A. K. and B. W. Seago, and Joe. L. Love. These 
gentlemen came to New Orleans in iSSi, from Atlanta, Georgia, with an extensive bus- 
iness experience, to foimd a new establishment. 

Mr. A. K. Seago conducted a wholesale grocery in Atlanta for some tweny-five years. 
The other gentlemen had ample experience and capacity for the enterprise they were 
then undertaking. The venture has proven entirely satisfactory, and the business is 
steadily increasing. From a ci.icular, which they have published for the information of 
the trade, dated October last, some idea of their business methods may be got. It is- 
worded as follows : 

"We commenced our fourth year's business in this city on the first day of October. 
We have removed to No. 27 North Peters street, the second building from the 
Custom House, and very near the Sugar Exchange and Sugar levees. Our location could 
not be better. Our cash system in our business has proven an entire success; the 
number of our customers and the volume of our trade has constantl}' increased from 
year to year; we have not lost a single debt since our location in New Orleans. We 
invariably buy for cash. We buy fresh goods at lowest prices in the open market for 
each order. W'e therefore never have any hard old stock to work off. Through the sugar 
season we buy sugars and molasses on the levee, fresh from the plantation mills, and 
rice from the rice mills, and coffee from the largest importers. Our margins are al- 
w^ays close. Direct open orders are largely on the increase; our customers from the 
Potomac to the Rio Grande are learning that their interests are safe in our hands. Hon- 
est dealings are the rule in oiu- business. The open orders of oiu- customers are as- 
faithfully executed as if they had bought by sample." P. O. Box 219S. 

DENNIS HAGARTY. 

Cotton Pickery: Corntr of Orange and Religious streets. 

Thirty five years' residence in New Orleans, constant connection with the cottori' 
interests in diverse capacities during that time, and a record of which any man might 
well be proud, is in brief the history of that well known citizen and competent business 
man, Mr. Dennis Hagarty. His cotton Pickery has been in operation for twenty -four 
years — fourteen of them in its present location at Orange and Religious streets. All 
this time he has managed his affairs without assistance, preferring to bear the burdens 
of administration alone rather than to entrust his interests to others. In this way he 
has avoided the many difficulties that naturally occur when authority is divided. 

With the natural expansion of the cotton trade, the quantity of damaged and rejected 
staple has greatly increased. As one of the first to engage extensi\-eh- in the restoration 
of such material to marketable condition, Mr. Hagarty deserves mention for his enter- 
prise. It is satisfactory to note that his venture has been uniformly profitable. Indus- 
trious habits still bind him to the trade, and he continues in it more because it is con- 
genial than of necessity. He employs a large force, pays the highest compensation for 
labor of any similar institution, and has rates to customers remarkably liberal. 

Although unsolicited therefor Mr. Hagarty has contributed to the celebration of 
the Cotton Centennial in accordance with the interest he has taken therein. An affair 
of so much importance is realized by him to be an event that ought not to be passed 
without encouragement; so in accordance with the general desire to see an outcome 
worthy of the generous and liberal Southern people, native or naturalized, he has be- 
stirred himself in behalf of the Exposition. Modest as his labors may have been, he is- 
still entitled to commendation for them. 

HARRISON & BETTISON. 

General Commission and Produce Merchants: 69 Tchoupitoulas street. 

This staunch and enterprising firm began the commission and produce business ir»' 
1S79. The members of the firm are G. P. Harrison and Ulric Bettison, both so well' 
and favorably knoAvn to the trade as to need no further introduction. Their trade is 
largely local, but is not confined to any particular spot, the interior presenting a rich 
field that has not been overlooked. The house transacts a miscellaneous business, but 
its most profitable trade is in Western produce, flour, corn, oats and hay. Special' 
attention is paid to these lines. Shippers at a distance will find this house Ai in every 
respect, and purchasers need no guarantee as to its reliability. The specialties of the 
house are Butter and Breadstuffs. 



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J. M. FROWENFELD. 

General Commission Merchant — Flour, Provisions and Grain : 65 and 67 Poydras and 55 and 57 Tchou- 

pitoulas streets. 

Mr. J. M. Frowenfeld was, until quite recently, one of the firm of Frowenfeld & 
Pfeifer. He severed hig connection with that house soine months ago, and is operating- 
alone in the provision and commission business at 65 and 67 Poj^dras street, making a. 
specialty of the trade in smoked and salt Meats, Flour, Corn Meal, and Grain, and ap- 
plying himself to the supply of the Louisiana parishes almost exclusively. 

Mr. P'rowenfeld is generally accredited by his associates in merchandizing, with 
keen business perceptions, methodical habits and a profound understanding of his line. 
He starts out independently with capital, patronage and determination. These qualifi- 
cations are bound to bring him success. Consignments of countrj' or other prodvice 
shipped to him will receive due attention and returns be made thereon promptly. Or- 
ders filled also with the utmost alacrity. 

JOHN GAUCHE'S SONS. 

Importers of Crockery, China, Glassware, &c. ; Moresque Building, 109 to 115 Camp sireet; VVare- 
house, 108 and no Cbartres street. 




This house is undoubtedly the oldest of its line now in New Orleans. It was es- 
tablished in 183S by the father of W. W., G. T., and E. G. Gauche, who succeeded 
upon his demise, with his widow, to the business and to the fortune he had accumulated 
therein. Under their management the business is enlarging every day. They are men 
who take broad aud liberal views in commercial matters and govern themselves accord- 
ingly. About thirty employes are on their pay roll. The Moresque buildings in which 
their salesrooms are situated, are an architectural feature of the city. They cover the 
block bounded by Camp, Poydras and North streets, and are a mai-vel of lavish orna- 
mentation, unique design and substantial construction. The warehouses of the house 
are on Chartres street, where are stored the importations of the firm to await the re- 
plenishing of the main establishment. The stock is diversified in the extreme, the fin- 
est and the coarsest wares being kept to accommodate any and all demands of the trade 
with the West Indies, Mexico, the Spanish American States and Southern sections. It 
includes table cutlery, lamps, tinware, woodenware, silverware, and all sorts of house- 
hold necessities. This house endeavors to make its relations with its patrons a mutual! 
profit to them both. It is a good house to trade- with. 



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Thk Ivni's ri;ii;s oi- New Oui.eaxs. 



PHILIPP LEBER. 

Merchant Tailor and Imj:orter of Fine Goods: 7 Carondelet street. 

Special facilities for ocean transportation between New Orleans and the great 
"European markets, consisting in the numerous direct steamship lines running direct to 
Liverpool, Ha\re, Marseilles, and other sea-ports, have tended to cheapen the cost of 
foreign goods to consumers thereof here, and have attracted to this city artisans of su- 
perior ability in the branches of trade for which these are the raw material. 

Dealers of discernment have therefore not been slow to foster a taste for genuine 
;goods and the first-class tailors have prospered bv the circumstances. Amongst those 
whose energies have been directed toward this end, the popular draper and tailor 
Philipp Leber, of No. 7 Carondelet street, is entitled to credit. Coming here in 1S49, 
he early foresaw the opportunities spoken of above, and following his trade, of which he 
is a recognized master, he awaited the chance for a good venture of his own. This oc- 
curred to him in 1S60, at \j-hich period he established himself in business. His patronage 
at first was limited, but his efforts were finally crowned with success, so that to-day, he 
not only has a fine run of custom in the tailoring and fitting line, but is conducting a 
great cloth house as well. In this latter department iiis taste and selections are notice- 
ably fine. The latest patterns are forwarded to him from abroad with the most recent 
fashion plates. His cutter is one of the experts of that delicate branch and the " swell " 
patronage of the city consults him regularly. His prices are extremely moderate and 
3iis terms upon cloth sales, reasonable and accommodating. 

THE TURKISH BATHS. 

Dr. J. C. Jonas, Proprietor: 40 and 42 St. Charles street, opposite the St. Charles Hotel. 

The Turkish and Russian Bath has been so thoroughly endorsed by the best medi- 
cal authorities and its benefits ha\e been so completely pro\en bv the experience of the 
patrons of it, as to be no longer a matter for controversy. The extraordinary useful- 
Jiess of the hot air bath, and indeed the luxury of one, is appreciated by all Avho have 
ever given it a trial. It is not necessary to be in ill health to enjoy one, although its 
greatest advantage is remedial. 

The St. Charles street Turkish and Medicated Baths were established ten years ago 
Ijy Dr. J. C. Jonas. That gentleman has been a practicing phvsician for thirtv years. 
In connection ivith Jie baths he administers Galvanic, Faradic and Franklinic electric- 
ity. Electric baths and Massage are his specialties. The present premises occupied by 
the baths are new, elegant and commodious. They have facilities for Turkish, Russian, 
Sulphur and Roman baths not surpassed in any city of the world. 

These baths are not only an effectual nieans of preserving life and health, they are 
Temedies par excellence for the speedy and thorough elimination of all impurities of 
the blood, catarhal and other affections of the throat and lungs, disturbance of the 
circulation and gastric functions, indigestion, imperfect nutrition, rheumatism, gout, 
fatty degeneration of liver and obesity, neuralgia, paralysis, general debility and ner\'- 
ous diseases generally, etc. Hours for gentlemen, 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. 

THE LONDON, LIVERPOOL AND GLOBE INSURANCE CO. 

Henry V. Ogden, Resident Secretary ; J. P. Koux, Assistant Secretary; Clarence F. Low, Deputy Ass't 
Secretary; Southern Department, New Orleans, corner Gravier and Carondelet streets. 

In every great city of the Union, remarkable alike for the breadth of its operations 
.and for the good repute in which it is held, the London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance 
Conif)any's headquarters takes a conspicuous place. With strength, liberality and 
promptness for its motto, with enormous capital and resources, with agencies so scat- 
tered throughout the world that it has almost ceased to be regarded as a foreign insti- 
tution, and has fairly become the universal corporation, this immense concern is un- 
doubtedly entitled to all the confidence that is so \ery generally placed iu it. It was 
organized in 1836 by such a charter that the stockholdei^s of the company are liable to 
the whole extent of their property for the debts of the company. Its first agency in the 
United States was established in 1S51, since which time it has paid in the United States 
over $35,000,000 of losses— $3,239,091 for the Chicago fire of 1871; $1,429,729 for the 
Boston fire of 1S72. Losses are invariably paid without discount as soon as adjusted. 
Fire risks are taken exclusively. It is not a speculati\e concern. Its directors are En- 
•gland's merchant princes. Its credit is stronger than that of many governments, /is 
.stock commatids ozwr 1000 />cr rent prcmiion ^ 

The New Orleans directors of this company are; J. F. Schroder, chairman; New- 
ton Buckner, A. Delvaille, Rudolph Woeste. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



SANTA CRUZ & INFANTE, JR. 

Dealers in all brands of Imported and Domestic Cigars, Cigarettes, Smoking and Chewing Tobaccos • 
Corner Canal and Dauphine streets, 134 Canal street, and corner Common and Carondelet "" 

streets. 

F. Santa Cruz and J. Infante, Jr., cigar dealers, are both natives of Havana, but 
thej have long been resident here, and are thoroughly identiiied with the cigar trade 
of the city. Mr. Santa Cruz has been sixteen years connected with the business. Mr 
Infante was formerly with the well known commission house of J. Bourg, one of the: 
great cotton and sugar houses of this section. About four years ago, Messrs. Santa. 
Cruz and Infante conceived the idea of establishing a cigar business in such shape 
best to reach the largest number of consumers. How well they have succeeded, the 
three conspicuous establishments bearing their sign board, best illustrate. Their first 
venture was at the corner of Canal and Dauphine, in 1S80. This stand prospered so 
that two years later the store No. 134 Canal, was taken, and in 1S83, a third place 
of business at the corner of Carondelet and Common streets was opened. This latter 
was made the headquarters of the firm. For it, they import from Havana, fine brands- 
of cigars and cigarettes and ship to all parts of the United States. Their most pop- 
ular imported brand is a cigar selling for ten cents, the "Favoritas." They have a 
domestic cigar of the same name, which they sell for five cents. Both these brands- 
are manuiactured especially ror this nouse. Of other brands exclusively sold by them 
may be mentioned the "Tip-top," a domestic Havana filled five cent cigar, and the- 
"Flor de Mexico," sold at the same figure. 

The favorite "Jockey Club" and "Centennial" cigarettes are manufactured by- 
Santa Cruz & Infante. Smoking and chewing tobacco, snuff and other essentials. 
are cai-ried in great variety. A large assortment of Mexican cigars, to be sold in lots- 
to suit purchasers, always on hand. 

Country and steamboat orders promptly attended to. 

D. L. RANLETT. 

Cordage, Shot, Powder, Bagging, lies. Brooms, Etc, : 28 South Peters street. 

D. L. Ranlett has been in business in New Orleans for so many years that he is- 
well and popularly known throughout the length and breadth of the South, where the 
quality and excellence of his wares has contributed to the esteem in which he is held. 
It is now forty-four years since the house over which he presides was established, dur- 
ing which time there has been but one change in the firm name, and none in the style 
of doing business, old-fashioned honorable dealings still being a characteristic of the 
house. 

As agent for L. Waterbury & Co., of New York, manufacturers of cordage of all. 
kinds; Tatham Bros., New York, manufacturers of drop, buck and chilled shot and. 
other standard inerchandise, Mr. Ranlett has been enabled to do well by his customers 
of the South and Mexico. The purchasers of those sections know that thev are certain 
to obtain from him the fairest considerations and best bargains. The Oriental Powder 
Mills have also confided to the house of D. L. Ranlett thenianagement of their affairs 
in this vicinity. Communications addressed to P. O. Box 3050 will reach this house. 

Mr. Ranlett's long residence here and thorough indentification with the commer- 
cial interests of the city of New Orleans, give Jiim an undoubted right to representa- 
tion in this work, as his record as a prompt, honest and faithful business man has 
earned him a high place in the public estimation. 

A. THOMSON & CO. 

Purchasing Merchants, making a Specialty of Sugar, Molasses and Rice : 28 North Peters street. 

Mr. Adam Thomson came to New Orleans in the year 1845, ^"d immediately as- 
sumed a prominent place in the mercantile community as a dealer in sugar and Western, 
produce. In 1848 he started a sugar refinery in connection with his other operations 
and has been in that sort of business all the time since. He now handles sugar, molas- 
ses and rice exclusively. In the forty years that he has been doing business he has 
gradually been extending his operations, until he now has transactions with all parts of 
the United States, and with points so far distant as Boston and San Francisco. He is- 
the veteran sugar factor of this vicinity, is a director of the HiberniaBank, is one of the 
finance committee of the Exposition, and has been the founder of numerous manufac- 
turing enterprises, such as refineries, cooper shops, etc. His P. O. address is Box 901.. 



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E. OFFNER. 

Importer and Dealer in China, Ciockery, Glassware, Cutlery and House Furnishing Goods: 174 

Canal street. 

The subject of this sketch has been twenty-five years in the business to which he has 
•desoted himselt— the crociiery trade, havi-ig been salesman, clerk and manager for other 
■good houses until the year iS57, when he branched out for himself with commendable 
spirit and energy. He labored under some disadvantages on the start, the season being 
a backward one for traffic generally: but subsequently his enterprise began to swell, and 
.a more prosperous vear following, his business enlarged and has continued to grow 
until he has now three grc;at floors of his premises laden with a selected stock, and is 
now one of the largest as well as oldest houses in his line in New Orleans. His stand- 
ing is appreciated so well abroad that his house has been chosen as the depot for Havi- 
land iv: Co.'s Limoges Porcelain, the finest ware manufactured. This is the great 
French establishment that manufactured the world-famous "White House" set, or din- 
ner service, for the President's mansion, in Washington, a wonderful ceramic master- 
piece, that in beauty and novelty comes very near being ranked with the works of fine- 
art. The designs are by the renowned American artist, Theodore R. Davis. The cost 
of the set was $10,000. The fish set, ornamented with representations of the choicest 
fish of our waters, is now on exhibition at Offner's. The mackerel, blue-fish and other 
■choice varieties are so finelv counterfeited in marine views and scenes from their stormy 
haunts, as to be fairly instinct with life. It is well worth examination, as it is the most 
magnificent ware made during this century. 

This house carries a very full line of fancy goods, bric-a-brac, plated ware, etc. It 
has the reputation of being one of the most reasonable houses in its line. 

ADOLPH G. RICKS & CO. 

■Successors to John Frank & Co., Importers of Leather and Shoe Findings: No. 142 Poydras street 

between Camp and St. Charles. 

John Frank first opened this house in 1863, J. Frank & Co. succeeding him. The 
business was transferred to the possession of Adolph G. Ricks and George Muth, in 1S81. 
This is the largest manufactory of boot, shoe and gaiter uppers in the United States. 
It emplovs 50 hands and ships' to Mexico, Central and South America, as well as all 
over the South. Mr. Frank made for this house and its goods, a reputation which the 
present co-partners are careful to preserve. None but the finest shoe and leather find- 
ings are dealt in. The importations from Europe and the North are selected by the 
■special agent of the house. 

Besides shoe goods, oils, shoemakers', tanners' and curriers' tools, shoe-making 
machinery and blacking is kept on hand. As fine a line of oak harness and sole leather 
as can be found anywhere, is dealt in. Fine oak calf, veal kip, hemlock sole, French 
calf and kip, French and American kids, moroccos, etc., are handled in endless variety. 
To those houses that have helped to sustain the credit of the city abroad, this house 
rnust be added, a long and honorable record entitling it to have attached to its name 
the mercantile commendation — Ai. 

R. M. FLAUTT & CO. 

Cojiimission Dealers in Live Stock: Office at the Stock Landing. 

This firm and well established concern is now eight years old. It was founded by 
the gentleman whose name gives the house its title, Mr. C. H. Crowley, of Houston, 
Texas, afterward acquiring an interest with Mr. Flautt. These gentlemen have had 
considerably more than the average experience in their line of business. Mr. Flautt 
was engaged in it at Memphis before he came here. So also Mr. Crowley had done 
business for something like ten years in the Lone Star State before his expanding pros- 
pects induced him to venture at'New Orleans, a year or more ago. The connections of 
this house reach out into the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Louis- 
iana, Florida and Missouri, in all of which sections they have customers. They have the 
second largest business here, selling, as they do, about 3,000 head of cattle a month, 
besides their sales of hogs and sheep. The solidity of this concern is undoubted. It 
has ample capital to accommodate its patrons, and is one of the most reasonable here- 
abouts in commission charges, every possible pains being taken to economize for those 
with whom it deals. Mr. Harry Crowley attends at all the trains by which stock for the 
house is arriving, and looks out for all details of that sort. Producers of the parishes, 
and abroad, will find it profitable to communicate with this house. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 135 

THE PLANTERS' PRESS. 

And Crescent City Yard, No. 2; Thomas C. Hei-ndon, Proprietor: Annunciation, between Richard 

and Market street. 

The name of Thomas C. Herndon, with whose affairs this accoimt deals lightly, is 
a familiar one to the commercial public of New Orleans, and is especially so to the 
older financial operators of this vicinity. Mr. Herndon has lived hereabouts for thirty- 
ifive years. In early life he was in the banking business, later was in commercial ven- 
tures, and about the year 1866 drifted into a vocation which has proved so congenial 
that he has remained in it ever since, that is to say, the storage and compressino- of 
cotton. Penn's, the Kentucky and the Planters' Press were formerly run in conjunction 
hy Messrs. Herndon & Krumbhaar. This arrangement was discontinued in 18S1, and 
the Planters' Press and yards were managed by the firm until August of 1884, when the 
firm was dissolved and the sole 'proprietorship was transferred to Mr. Herndon. He 
•still owns the Penn press, but having a sufficiently large trade to accommodate at the 
Planters' premises, he leases out the former institution. 

The Planters' Press and Crescent City Yards cover a square and a half of ground, 
and have a storage capacity for 22,000 bales. The compress is one of the largest size 
Morse patent, and will compress 1000 bales a day. Over 100 men are employed in and 
about the Yards and Compress. The patronage of the Press comes from all over the 
•South. 

Mr. Herndon has been liberal in his encouragement of all public enterprises, nota- 
bly in the case of the great Exposition. His interests being so largely dependent upon 
the expansion of the cotton trade, this has been to him a labor of love that will doubt- 
less be repaid by an increased patronage hereafter. 

JOHN I. NOBLE. 

Cotton Factor: 40 Perdido street, up stairs. 

This is a house of thirty years standing and operations. Rivers, Battle & Noble 
were the originators and founders. It has been in one location all the time it has been 
■doing business, thus illustrating its stability. 

After numerous changes in the designation of the firm, it is now run under the 
name and direction of John I. Noble, who is well-known as a prominent member of 
the Cotton Exchange, and as one of the Board of Management of the Factors' and 
Traders' Insurance Company. He is a gentleman of ability and acknowledged experi- 
ence in all the processes of factorage, brokerage, shipment, etc., having a wide 
acquaintance with producers all over the South, and particularly in the Gulf States. 
His expeditious and clever methods of doing business have been much remarked. The 
trade pays great i-espect to his opinions, and his footsteps are followed by not a few 
competing concerns. Office, 40 Perdido. 

POZZI BROTHERS. 

Importers and Dealers in Wines and Liquors: 30 Decatur street, near Customhouse. 

Charles and Pascal Pozzi are the successors to Battalora & Pozzi, who were estab- 
lished wholesalers in liquor twenty yeai's ago. The brothers Pozzi also run a retail 
■store at 18 and 20 Dumaine street. At the wholesale concern they keep on hand a fine 
■stock of domestic wines and liquors, and importations of Swiss cheese and other foreign 
products. The finer qualities of wines and liquors are also imported for the purpose of 
supplying an excellent patronage all over the State of Louisiana, as well as in this city. 
This house is thoroughly sound and reliable. The brothers are accommodating and 
liberal tradesmen and satisfactory people to trade with. 

JOHN J. McFARLANE & CO. 

Cooperage: Office and Warehouse, 50 to 62 North Peters Factory; 37 and 39 South Prieur street 
Particular attention paid to trimming- on the Sugar Landing-. 

J. J. McFarlane and Hugh McManus have been very many years in the line indicat- 
ed by the caption to this sketch. Both are long resident of the Crescent City, and are 
skilled in all the characteristics of the cooperage business of this section. They are 
prominent manufacturers of and dealers in sugar ban-els and hogsheads, inolasses 
barrels (halves and kegs), hoop poles, and the et ceteras of the trade. Particular atten- 
tion is given to trimming on the sugar landing, and orders from city or country are 
promptly and satisfactorily attended to by them. P. O. Box '2744. 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 



R. B. POST & SON, 

Commission Merchants and Dealers in Louisiana and Western Produce ; ag-ents Tampa S. S. Co. : 

qt and 93 Magazine s:reet. 

The foundation ot this house was laid in 1S50, when R. B. Post and Chas. Mel 
beffan the business now conducted at 91 and 93 Magazine street. Post and Mel were 
succeeded bv Post and Hobby, and they by the present firm.— This house, as the brief 
sketch given of it would indicate, is one of the steady and conservative houses of the 
good old sort. It has its customers in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida and enjoys a fair 
share of the local trade in domestic and Western produce. Its credit has always been 
of the best. Merchants of the interior having dealings with it will find it as liberal as it 
is accurate in all its transactions. The house, it may be remarked in closing, is also 
agent for the Tampa Steamship Company. 

JAMES CLARKE. 

Coffee Dealer: 27 and 29 Natcliez street. 
Tames Clarke, Importer of Brazilian and Central American Coffees, is the successor 
to F L. Clarke & Bro., a house that was established in the year 1S69. In 1S74, the de- 
signation of the house was changed to that heading this sketch, on account of the death 
of the senior partner. The house has since been conducted alone by the present pro- 
prietor, whose long residence here and years of connection with the coffee trade, has 
made him one of the principal figures in this market. The Texas towns and the Loui- 
siana cities and interior are, of course, the special fields for New Orleans dealers, and 
this house leads all competitors in those districts. The business methods, as well as the 
importations of this house are thoroughly appreciated wherever this establishment has 
dealings, a steady expansion of the business, year by year, indicating clearly the con- 
fidence and esteem his customers have in the house ot James Clarke. 

C. MEHLE & CO. 

Commission Merchants for the sale of Live Stock: Office, Sto:k Landing, New Orleans. 

The first shipper of Texas cattle to this point was the founder of this establishment- 
It is now some thirty years since the business was commenced at the old Stock Land- 
ing bv him and the "age and long standing of the concern is a criterion of its usefulness.. 
The firm is now made up of four partners: C. Mehle, B. C. Steinbeck, J. J. McGinnis 
and Jo. Donaldson. Mr. Mehle, who is a native of New Orleans, is his father's succes- 
sor the enterprising dealer spoken of at the outset of this description. Mr. Steinbeck is 
a resident and business man for twenty-five years and has always been in the cattle 
business. Mr. McGinnis has lived here for the same length of time and was formerly 
distino-uished in produce and steamboating. He was in the cattle trade before the war, 
and returned to it after giving up these enterprises, so that he, too, is well posted in the 
trade. Mr. Donaldson has been handling cattle right here since the year 1S65. Cattle, 
hoo-s and sheep are the special lines to which this firm old house gives its chief atten- 
tion. ' Commission sales made by them are invariably satisfactory to all concerned.. 
The responsibility of this concern is undisputed. 

CHAS. G. SCHULZ. 

Die Sinker ind General Engraver ; Manufacturer of Medals, Seals, Badges, Brass Checks with letters- 

in relief Stencils Stencil'lnks, Steel Dies, all kinds of Rubber Stamps, Doorplates, Branding Irons, 

Electrotypes and Stereotypes, etc.: 25 Natchez street, opposite the Morgan Building. 

There are but a few establishments of this kind in the United S tates and perhaps 
none that can turn out the variety of work of the above concern. The proprietor is oldl 
in the business, having learned the principal part, viz., the designing and engraving of 
dies etc., from his father in Guben, Germany, who was one of the best known engrav- 
ers of that country. With the skill acquired during five years close application, having 
promised his father not to take a situation in Berlin, he traveled to London, and being 
familiar with the language, soon found work, although times were exceedingly dull. 
This was in the year 18s i- Moving shortly after to Birmingham, he found encourage- 
ment to open ou"t for himself. Having a few specialties which were not then known in 
Birmino-ham and which had to be sent for to London, he easily obtained steady patrons- 
who afterwards tried hard to keep him from going to the United States. Nevertheless, 
he betook himself to St. Louis in 1S62, and immediately fell into a good business. 
Finding the climate too severe, however, he left that city for New Orleans in Septem- 
ber of 1S65, and here, encouraged by a liberal patronage, coming from all parts of the-- 



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South, Mexico, and Central America, he has remained, doing the most profitable, if not 
che greatest business in his line. 

The chief employment of his staff, which is specially selected for their accomplish- 
ments, is die-sinking, for which the Schulz establishment has a reputation. In addition 
thereto, rubber, ribbon and steel stamps, hotel, bar, and baggage checks, stencils me- 
dallions, badges, and the whole line of metallic designs are made to order with 
dispatch and at reasonable rates. 

KATZ & BARNETT. 

Importers and Jobbers of Notions, Hosiery, Ribbons, Furnishing Goods, etc.: 36 to 40 Camp street 
This progressive and popular house has been operated for twenty-six years in New 
Orleans under the designation at the head of this article. During all that time its 
characteristic was that it preferred to be in advance of its business contemporaries 
rather than to lag along, satisfied with whatever share of the public favor that fell to it 
It is not surprising, therefore, to find its samples all over the South and its travelers far 
into Mexico. Its local trade need not be described. In the branches indicated bv the 
headlines to this account, Katz & Barnett have almost exhausted the limits of distri- 
bution, if that were possible. An idea of the magnitude of their transactions can be 
got from the information that they employ from forty to sixty people, many of them at 
high salaries, because they are expert in their business. The premises occupied by the 
house are the immense five-storied buildings, S0X125, in the most conspicuous location 
to be found in New Orleans — 36, 38 and 40 Camp street. The fact that this house re- 
tains its patronage 3'ear in and year out, constantly adding to the number, is sufficient 
to intimate that their methods and treatment of customers are founded on principle 
Having elaborate arrangements and strong connections abroad, this house maintains its 
prestige with ease. 

THE CRESCENT CITY PRESS. 

A. p. Mason, Proprietor: Corner of Race and Peters stre:.ts. 

For four or five years after its foundation in 1S54, the press and yards now known 
as the Crescent City Press, were called Bell's Press, on account of the senior builder of 
the institution, Mr. John M. Bell, who with Mr. Sam Boyd inaugurated the enterprise 
under the firm name of Bell & Boyd. The press was connected with the Shipper's 
Press until 1S5S, when the death of Mr. Bell, who was killed in the deplorable Prmcess 
explosion of that 3'ear, resulted in a change of management and of title. Mr. Mason 
the present proprietor, has lived here since 3S65 and has run this press for fourteen 
years. Previous to his acquisition of the property he was prominent in the wholesale 
coal trade, in which line he was held in as high estimation as he now enjoys in a dif- 
ferent branch of business. 

The Crescent City Press and sheds cover two-thirds of a block of land at the point 
designated in the headlines to this account, and can hold 12,000 bales under cover. Its 
Tyler 75-inch compress, and thirty employes are equal to the task of pressing Soo bales 
a day. The patronage of the concern comes from all over the Southern section that 
has transportation connections with Ncav Orleans. 

Mr. Mason has the entire confidence of his patrons. He is a thorough o-entleman 
and a btisiness man of great application, ready resource and ample capital. 

FRANK RODER & CO. 

Dealers in Bourbon and R}'e "VTliiskies; Agents Sunrise Rice Mills : Office, 19 and 51 Tchou >itouIas street 
The origin of this house dates back to a time when the wholesale liquor trade if 
not in its infancy, was yet a \-ery different business from what it is now. The house' of 
Roder & Co. (Frank Roder andGeorge Jurgens) first opened its doors in 1S154, just thirty 
years ago. In all that time its affairs have been directed with signal judgment and success 
One rule has been followed and that is to treat all customers generouslv and honestly 
and alike, no matter how meagre their patronage. This practice has i-esiilted in makini" 
the firm popular with retailers, who know that the quality of the goods dispensed by 
the firm is unexcelled. Among the brands that are specially dealt in by the house of 
Roder & Co., are (jallagher & Burton's finest grades of Philadelphia R.ye, and all the 
best and purest straight Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Maryland Bourbons 
and Ryes. Sales are made in bond or duty paid. 

The firm is also agent for the Sunrise Rice Mills. The premises occupied consist 
of the storerooms at 49 and 51 Tchoupitoulas street. Receiving direct from the manu- 
facturers, this house is thus enabled to offer its stocks on terms only to be gained by 
trading with direct importers. The long experience of Messrs. Roder and Jurgens 
both of whom have "grownup" in the business, has made them experts in "their 
line, and hence they are fully prepared to fill all orders with celerity and satisfaction. 



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THE BROOK RICE MILLS. 

C.J. Allen, successor to Allen & Synie, Millers and M;miifuctuv.-r.s' Agents : 29S to ,504 Peters street, 

corner ot Erato. 

The Biook mills are known to the rice trade all over the United States as one of 
the largest concerns ot the kind in America, and they certainl\ excel all others in the 
vicinity of New Orleans in this respect. They have been in operation about fifteen 
years. Mr. C. J. Allen, the present proprietor, recently succeeded the firm of Allen & 
Syme, who were the successors to the original founder of the concern, Columbus H. 
Allen. These mills are equipped with the very best and latest machinerv, are run by 
a 150-horse power engine, employ thirty men, and ship to all parts of the United 
States. Their capacity is about 60,000 barrels clean rice per twenty-foiu" hours. 
They co\er a quarter block of ground. 




In addition to his milling interests, Mr. C. J. Allen is agent for Aultman & Tay- 
lor's engines and threshers, and is in other ventures of note. 

The various enterprises in which he is engaged, show conclusively the progressive 
characteristics of the man. In those other prime qualifications of a first class business 
concern, this house is eniinentlv thorough, being regarded as reliable and responsible 
in every way, shape and form. 

A.& P. A. VILLERMIN. 

Grocers and Commission Merchants: qi Decatur street, between Conti and St. Louis. 

From 1862 to 1880 this house was rated with the retailers, but from the latter year 
its transactions and methods have entitled it to rank with the wholesale trade. Mr. A. 
Villermin founded the house. Its principal trade is now with the interior of this State, 
and is mainly in groceries and fertilizers. 

The house is agent for the celebrated B. D. Sea-fowl guano, which was introduced in 
1863, and which from that year to the present has rapidly gained in popularity. It contains 
in proper proportions the elements of plant food best calculated to grow sugar-cane, 
cotton, wheat, corn and other Southern crops successfully. Upon its own merits it has 
gained a reputation which is the envy of all its competitors. Circulars of explanation 
sent free by addressing E. U. Estilette, agent for the State of Louisiana, or A. & P. A. 
Villermin, 91 Decatur street. New Orleans, general distributing depot. Each case of 
this guano is annalyzed before being offered for sale, and is warranted equal to the best 
in use. 

The house is also agent for Bradley's orange tree fertilizer, specially prepared for 
fruit trees of all kinds by the famous Bradley Fertilizer Co., of Boston, Mass. Brad- 
le3''s vegetable fertilizer, for which this house is also the depot, is just the thing for 
market gardeaers and agriculturists of that sort. P. O. Box 1606. 




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M. SCHWARTZ. 

Dealer in Mill, Plantation, Engineer and Railway Supplies : 39 and 41 Magazine street; Warehouse 

143 to 147 Magazine. 

This popular name is one of some local 
celebrity, as belonging to a most enterprising- 
and worthy citizen of New Orleans. Jt was the 
pi-oprietor of this house who was the first to 
carry out successfully the Spanish Fort railroad 
scheme. Although comparatively a young 
man, he is one of the solid men of the Crescent 
City. Having an immense capital, he is able 
to carry an immense stock; it is, therefore, no 
exaggeration to say that he does the greatest 
business in the line of heavy hardware and 
supplies, of any house in the South. The 
present establishment was opened for business 
in 1882, but the trade had been previously car- 
ried on by him in connection with other partners. The force of salesmen, porters, etc. 
at the Schwartz stores and warehouse, numbers twenty, and the management has been 
•selected for familiai-ity with the entire course of the trade, from Central America to 
Florida, and from thence to Texas. The house is special agent for the Westinghouse 
Engines and the Worthington Duplex Steam Pumps, the best of their kind. In the 
line of mill, railway and engineer supplies, a full assortment of the following matei'ial 
is always in store : Bolts, nuts and washers, anchors and chains, barbed wire, bar, hoop, 
sheet and boiler iron, anvils, sledges, bellows, vises, wheelbai-rows, shovels and spades, 
9-oad scrapers, steam and water gauges, gas pipe and steam fittings, nails and rivets, 
steel blacksmiths' tools, rubber hose, belting and packing, steam whistles, Hancock's 
Inspirators, Mack's Injectors. 

Old machinery, ii'on and metals, are purchased at highest market prices. 

JACKSON & KILPATRICK. 

Importers and Dealers in Salt: S Tchoupitoulas, 8 New Levee 46 to 50 Common streets. 

The most substantial house of the salt line in New Orleans is undoubtedly that 
owned by James Jackson, John Jackson and Douglass M. Kilpatrick. The firm name 
was first hung out in New Orleans in 1852, and two years later an establishment was 
■made in St. Louis. The firm deals in all kinds of natural and manufactured salt 
"handling great quantities constantly at the Fisk salt warehouse, of which it is propri- 
etor. Cargoes are there taken on storage in bond or duty paid, and all orders are filled 
with dispatch at the wholesale address given above. The trade of Jackson & Kilpatrick 
has a magnitude that will compare favorably with that of any similar house in the whole 
■country. The most favorable inducements are given to those desiring to form relations 
with the house, and all who favor it with orders can rely on prompt shipment and fair 
treatment. 

EDWARD THOMPSON. 

•Dealer in Roofing Material, Pitch, Plastic Slate, Oil Cloth, Paints, etc. Patentee and Maker of Thomp- 
son's Improved Building Paper: 112 and 114 Poydras street. 

This house was established in 1868 by the present proprietor. It does a heavy busi- 
ness all over the United States, with Mexico and with Central America. Its city trade is 
immense. Twenty employes are on its pay roll. 

Mr. Thompson's specialties are numei-ous. Being the patentee and manufacturer 
"he has the sole right of sale for Thompson's Improved Building Paper, which is made 
•expressly as a substitute for wall paper and plaster, intended to overcome summer heat 
and winter's cold, as well as to give a handsome and durable finish. It is tacked up 
not pasted, and can be applied to brick work as easily as to wood. Light portable par- 
■titions can be made of it that will shut out light and sound, heat apd cold, as well as a 
plastered wall. It is printed in a great variety of patterns and designs. One lining of 
at is equal to three coats of plastering. 

Thompson's strawboard paper for lining and sheathing is also used extensively as 
■a finish for rooms, for lining refrigerator buildings, etc., the utility of paper as a non- 
<;onductor being now well recognized. All the Texas slaughtered beef is now carried 
iin refrigerator cars that have no other lining than this paper.] 



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The Industuies of New Orleans. 



Thompson's paper oil-carpeting in the past five 3'ears has come into general use, on 
account of its beauty and durability, for offices and residences. Samples of patterns, 
are sent by mail. 

This house keeps also in stock the Imperial House Colors, prepared from the finest 
white lead, zinc, dry colors aud linseed oil. They have been thoroughly tested by years 
of use. This house has the exclusive agency for them in the United States and Canada. 

In the line of composition roofing, tarred felt, Trinidad asphalt, etc., half a dozen 
varieties, suitable for flat or steep roofs, are kept on hand. 

The Monarch Mill for grinding corn, rice or any kind of grain, is another specialty 
of this house. 

Contracts are undertaken by this house for the putting on of composition roofs, 
and the repairing of old ones, either in city or country. Also for the repairing of old 
metal roofs. Circulars and information furnished promptly on application therefor. 

E. C. FENNER. 

Carriage Repository, Harness etc. 105 aud 107 Gravier street. 

Although this house has 
been but four years in busi- 
ness, its trade will compare 
with that of any house in the 
South. It has already trade 
facilities and connections ex- 
tending into Arkansas, Missis- 
sippi, Texas and Florida, and 
its city trade is particularly 
satisfactory. The stock on hand- 
fills the four stores of the ware- 
house at 105 and 107 Gravier 
street. Included in it are all 
kinds of vehicles, light and 
heavy, from the best northern, 
western and local manufactur- 
ers, childrens' carriages and 
\elocipedes, harness, whips, 
robes, etc. Every thing froin 
a track sulky to a Concord 
coach can be purchased froin 
this establishment. Orders are 
filled for the work of any special maker, and particul; r attention is paid to light vehi- 
cles. The very latest styles andmost substantial wares only are kept in stock. 

W. G. WHEELER. 

Wholesale Clothing and Furnishing Goods; S6 Canal street. 

W. G. Wheeler first began the clothing trade before the war and was a partner of 
W. H. Pierson from 187610 1SS2, but for the two years last past he has been conduct- 
ing the business at 86 Canal street alone. Mr. Wlieeler's trade extends over the South. 
Every arrangement has been made at this establishment for the transaction of a heavy 
business. The preinises are commodious, and the employes efficient. A stock of end- 
less variety is kept on hand sufficient to satisfy the wants of customers from any section 
of the South. The head of the house is a man of rare bu.siness capacity and consider- 
able means. The business is being pushed rapidly into new localitit-s where the fine 
quality of the goods delivered attracts favorable attention to the house. This is a 
meritorious concern, well deserving th.^ good fortune that has attended its energetic 
efforts thus far; sound and trustworthy in every event. 

GREVE & WILDERMANN. 

Western Produce, Coniniissirn and Forwarding Merchants: 20 South I'eters street. 

Joseph G. Greve and J. R. Wildermann associated themsehes for the purposes of 
conducting a commission business in New Orleans some time in 186S. Owing princi- 
pally to their own generous business efforts, they have been measurably successful in 
retaining the confidence with which the business world was inspired upon their advent 
into it. Their best trade is in the city, but they ha\e a fair share of the patronage 
of the interior districts. 




The Industries of New Orxeans. 141 

S. OTERI. 

Importer and Wholesaler of Fruits, Foreign and Domestic ; Commission Merchant and Agent for the 
Oteri Pioneer Central American Line of Steam Packets: 23 and 25 
South Front street near Gravier_ 

Long before attention had been directed to the long neglected Central American 
trade by the newspaper agitation thereon of the last couple of years, Mr. S. Oteri, who 
had been for more than twenty years trading with the Caribbean ports as a fruit and 
produce buyer, determined to try his fortune and risk some of the profits he had gained 
in the establishment of a line of steamers to Central America. That was in 1874, nearly 
ten years before there was any public interest in the matter, and the line then set in 
operation is now appropriately known as the Pioneer Line. In spite of the numerous 
and unavoidable discouragements usual to a new venture, it has been on the whole con- 
tinuously prosperous, and is now thoroughly and firmly established. Two steamers 
run regularly, the 6'. Oteri, Pizzati, master, and the E. B. Ward, Captain Leppert, 
■calling at Ruatan, Truxillo, Utilla, Bonacca, Belfate, Ceiba, Stephen River, and other 
ports in Spanish Honduras, and carrying thence, besides freight and passengers, the 
United States and Honduran mails. 

As has been intimated, Mr. Oteri has been in the fruit business since 1854. Tropi- 
cal fruits he imports by his own steamers, thus having a great advantage over other 
liouses in the trade, an advantage undoubtedly shared by his customers. The principal 
imports of his house are bananas, cocoanuts and pine-apples. A choice stock of do- 
mestic fruits is also kept on hand. The packing of fruits for shipment has been sys- 
tematized and made a specialty by this concern. Consignments are received on commis 
«ion, and sales made by the cai-go. The length of time that Mr. Oteri has been en 
gaged in the trade is of itself sufficient commendation for his business methods. 

W. C. SHEPARD. 

Crockery, China, Glassware, etc: 49 Camp street. 

Exerting an influence in the china and glassware trade of New Orleans, and one 
that has tended toward improving the character of the goods to suit the advanced con- 
ditions of population, wealth and culture, this house has for well nigh a half a century 
maintained its prestige in spite of imtoward events, business misfortunes or the other 
unavoidable circinnstances of past years. It has certainly contributed largely to the 
■cultivation of a higher taste for ceramics, and to the development of home talent in 
that line. 

The house was founded in 1842 by R. B. Shepard. It is one of the most extensive 
importers in its line in the South. Frequent consignments are received of French, 
English and German china; French, Bohemian and Belgian glassware; French, Cer- 
man, English, Italian, Japanese and Chinese art pottery, bric-a-brac, and fancy goods 
•of every description. Full lines of the best English and American table ware, chamber 
•sets, etc., are also handled. The imported goods are brought direct from the most 
noted manufactories of Europe. They include Sevres, Dresden, Berlin, Worcester, 
Mintons, Derby and other decorated articles. The stock is so varied indeed as to baffle 
description. In the line of Majolica, plaques and painted porcelain the selections are 
admirable. 

This firm, having a reputation for probity and enterprise, does a large business all 
over the Southwestern country, as well as a first-class city trade. Mr. Shepard's son 
shares in the management of the house. 

NEWTON «& STODDARD. 

Who'esale Grocers and Commission Merchants: Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Tobacco .and Cigars: 

109 Poydras street. 

This firm is a recent one, but the partners are veterans in the trade. Mr. C. W. 
Newton has been forty years in business in New Orleans. Mr E. S. Stoddard and he 
"have been partners now for something over a year. Their business is principally 
local, but they do a good share of the Louisiana and Mississippi coast trade. The 
Tiouse is centrally located, ample in its dimensions, convenient in all its arrangements 
and appointments and is equipped with every facility for carrying on business on 
a large scale. 

The members of the firm, both well posted merchants, give their personal attention 
to the business. They have the special advantages of a large capital and long experi- 
ence. They keep numerous traveling salesmen on the road, and are careful to fill 
orders from abroad to the letter. The most favorable terms in the way of discounts, 
•etc., are given to the trade. 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 



LOUISIANA PLATED WARE MANUFACTORY. 

F. Bertel Proprietor: ii;i Cliartres street. 

This is the foremost establishment of the sort in the South. In it is manufactured 
to order and for the trade all kinds ot nickel, silver and silver-plated ware. Saddlers'^ 
silver and brass findings and military equipments are a specialty of the place. 

The concern was established about seven years ago by Joseph Christian. About 
three years since the present proprietor, Mr. F. Bertel, acquired control of it. He i& 
well-known as a most expert artisan. He was born in Covington, Louisiana, and has- 
had some twenty-four years experience in this city. He learned his profession with the 
house of A. Himmel, manufacturing jeweler, and had been for many years a trusted 
employe of A. B. Griswold & Co., before he ventured for himself. He is particularly 
clever, or rather his employes are, at jobbing and repairs. He does his nickel and silver 
plating with the Dynamo machine, which is used all through the North, .and can do 
as much work in an hour as can be accomplished in the ordinary way in a whole day. 
This is the onl> apparatus of this sort in New Orleans. 

As an instance of Mr. Bertel's enterprise and activity it may be stated that he was 
the first man in New Orleans to do nickel plating. His trade is mostly local, but he 
also welcomes orders from abroad, and takes great pains to fill them accurately. 

G. PASCAL & CO. 

General Coiiimission Merchants ; Agents for the sale of Provisions, Whiskey, Cotton, Sugar, Rice, etc. :. 

74 and 76 Poydras street. 

Known to all the coast country, and appreciated for high commercial qualities, is 
the sound and square house which is the subject of this sketch. Gabriel Pascal and 
William Pitard have been in partnership since 1S72, but prior to that time the house 
had been in operation since 1856. The firm name and style having been at one time 
that of the present senior partner, at another Galloso & Pascal, then Pascal «& Van 
Horn, Mr. Pascal, as will be seen, always having the direction of affairs. The trade 
of the house covers everything in the commission line. The firm are agents for flour, 
pork, beef, bacon, lard, whiskey, cotton, rice, sugar and molasses; in fact, all the 
Louisiana and coast produce. They are regarded, and ever have been, with implicit 
confidence, by both buyer and seller, a trust they have been careful not to renounce^ 

FRANK BARKER. 

Wholesale Grocer; Country and Western Produce: 123 Decatur street, between Toulouse and St. Louis.. 

This brisk commission house was founded in iSSoby C. H. Sevin, whose trade con- 
nections were principally with the parish of Lafourche. Mr. Frank Barker, who sue - 
ceeds Sevin, was for twelve years with the well-known firm of Sevin & Gourdain, and 
is sufficiently well known himself, by a fifteen-year residence, to be recognized as a man 
of business training, experience and capabilities. Mr. Barker, following the example 
of his predecessor, confines his operations to the country parishes, although he stands 
ready to perform commission services for any part of the South. His transactions are 
mainly in molasses, sugar and rice, and in these lines he is thoroughly posted and! 
responsible. Orders promptly executed and returns expeditiously and accurately made. 

LOUISIANA TROY LAUNDRY. 

Victor Xippert & Co., Proprietors ; S. H. West, Manager: 120 to 124 Toulouse street; Central Office^ 
32 St. Charles street, opposite the St. Charles Hotel. 

This establishment was started on February ist, 1S84, by Victor Nippert & Co. 
S.H. West, the manager, had been superintendent for the Troy Laundry on Rampart 
street, and also for the concern of the same name in Milwaukee, for some eight or ten 
years before. Since the laundry began operations, the public have shown their favor 
for a competing institution by giving it their best patronage. The present premises at 
120 to 124 Toulouse street, were especially prepared for the business in last December, 
and removal was made to them then. The improvements therein include a collar and' 
cuff ironing machine, one of the best in use. 

Forty hands are employed, and the steamboat, hotel and restaurant trade is pretty 
well monopolized by this concern, work being performed for people so far away as 
Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and the parishes of Louisiana. 

Eugene Gerard is the " Co." of the firm. This laundry is the best equipped in the 
South. Its machinery was specially manufactured for it in Troy, New York. Shirts, 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



collars, cuffs, boat, car and hotel work are specialties of the laundry. Collars and cuffs 
laundried new, in Troy style. A 75-inch steam mangle will turn out any quantity of 
table linen and bed clothes at the shortest possible notice. Special arrangements made 
to accommodate a limited number of families for their whole wash. Orders left at the 
laundry or at 32 St. Charles street, will be promptly attended to. Telephone No. 6281. 

S. PABLO. 

Agent for Armstrong's Corks, etc. : 49 Decatur street, between Bienville and Customhouse. 

The gentleman whose name is the title to this sketch has lived here since his boy- 
hood, and has been in business here since 1S42. He will be recollected by old residents 
as formerly in the liquor business in connection with his present avocation (the cork 
trade), and as having discontinued that about seven years ago. He was also one of the 
founders of the Crescent City Seltz Water Company, was its first president, and still 
holds an interest therein, 

At present he devotes the best part of his time to supplying the cork market here- 
abouts. He supplies the brewers, grocers, liquor inerchants, etc., mostly in New Or- 
leans, but also in the parishes, with corks and bungs, and handles some rice. As agent 
for Armstrong Bros. & Co.'s machine-cut corks (the largest factory in the United 
States), and for their compressed poplar bungs, he has special advantages to offer the 
trade which are not unappreciated. He has a handsome patronage and does the best 
business in his line of any one here. 

L. MYERS. 

Agent for Schoolherr, Bernstein & Co., New York Mantifacturers of Clothing: 58 Customhouse street. 

The affable and active business man whose name heads this account, has lived here 
since 1858, and is therefore pretty well known to the citizens at large of this vicinity as 
well as to the Clothing trade, which line has always been his avocation. For the three 
years last past he has been charged with the affairs of the great New York manufactur- 
ers, Schoolherr, Bernstein & Co., of 451 and 453 Broadway, and 28 and 30 Mercer street, 
in that city. This firm is one of the strongest in New York, and is certainly the heaviest 
manufacturing concern in their line there. They employ from 500 to looohands, accor- 
ding to the times, i,n their factories, and have twenty-six men on the road in the South- 
ern country alone. Mr. Myers handles for them clothing only, supplying from these 
headquarters the trade of Louisiana and a portion of Mississippi. He has been suc- 
cessful in impressing the purchasing public with the merits of his meixhandise, is pleased 
at all times to respond to any inquiries of a business nature, and to furnish price lists, 
etc., for the benefit of customers at a distance. 

P. L. CUSACHS. 

' Chemist and Drviggist: 15S Canal and i to 7 Baronne street. 

Old residents recollect with pleasurable sensations the establishment of P. Cusachs, 
corner of St. Philip and Royal streets, which was opened in the year 1831, and was 
subsequently removed tOT,'j Royal. The concern described herein'is the succession to 
that one, and its senior proprietor is the son of the old Royal street apothecary. The 
elder Cusachs died about five years ago, but the son had been managing the business 
many years before that event. This house is the leading and largest prescription 
house of the city. Four experienced prescription clerks are kept constantly busy 
attending to this branch of the business. The full line of Surgical Instruments "can be 
obtained here. The house carries also a heavy miscelaneous stock of Drugs, Chemi- 
cals and apothecaries' supplies. On accoimt of its length of service, its trade with the 
city people is pretty well established, but besides that it has a large country patronage. 
This is in every respect a first-class house. 

T. T. WHITE & CO. 

Manufacturing and Purchasing Agents, Commission Merchaiits; General Merchandise Brokers and 
Dealers in Grocer's Sundries: 87 and 89 Magazine street. 

This firm are the pioneers of this business in the South in their line. The house 
was established by T.T.White in 1865. He is the senior member of the firm, Mr. W. A. 
Gordon having been admitted to a partnership four years since. They represent the 
interests in the South of about twenty-five of the strongest firms in the country, sal- 
mon and canned goods generallj^ being a specialty with them. They confine their 
business to the wholesale jobbing trade and at their warerooms, 87 and 89 Magazine 
street, carry a full and well assorted stock of these goods The firm is a strong one, 
having such relations abroad as furnish it with every facility for selling and handling 
goods direct from the manufacturers. 



144 The Industries of New Orleans. 

S. A, MORITZ. 

Fire Insuraiuu ; Assent for the London Assurance Corporation, of London, Ens^land., and for the 

Williamsburg City P'lre Insurance Company, of Brooklyn, New York; 193 

Gravier street. 

Eleven years since S. A. Moritz began to operate as a general insurance agent in 
New Orleans. Finding that a concentration of energy upon one or two strong com- 
panies would be more useful and profitable policy for him and tor his customers, he 
acquired the agencies of tlie London Assurance Corporation and the Williamsbin-g 
City Fire Company, of Brooklyn, New York, and settled down to the ad\ancement of 
the interests of the widespread patronage which these establishments ha\e obtained in 
these parts. 

The London Assurance Corporation is a very old one, one of the oldest insurance 
companies in the world, and it has resources corresponding with its ad\anced years. 
Its assets equal $iS, 000,000. Policies are issued by Mr. Moritz for it upon merchandise, 
furniture, stores and dwellings at most reasonable rates. 

The Williamsburg City of Brooklyn is one of the very safest of the home (U. S.) 
companies. Mr. Moritz is thoroughly up in his business, coiu'teous, painstaking and 
responsible. His office is at 193 Gravier street. 

SCHMIDT & MAGEE. 

Commission Merchants in Western and Coutnry Produce: 2^ Poydras street, between Fulton and F'ront. 

Amongst the younger generation of merchants, these brisk tradesmen are conspicu- 
ous. Both of them were born and reared in New Orleans, and have learned all they 
know of business affairs in the Crescent City. They were employes of other large 
commission firms before going in for themsehes and have a complete acquaintance 
with all branches of that mercantile line. Schmidt & Magee (E. W. Schmidt and F. 
P. Magee) are commission merchants tor the sale and purchase of Western Produce, 
Hides, Wool, Furs, Moss, Sugar, Cotton, Rice, Honey, Eggs, Beeswax, and Poultry. 
They make most liberal advances on consignments, and although only established since 
last September, are already making serious encroachments on the patronage of their 
neighbors, and are opening up new fields for their operations in all the Southern States. 

Messrs. Schmidt & Magee ha\'e lately removed to new quarters at 23 Poydras street, 
between F\ilton and Front, the change being made necessary by the expanding business 
of the house. P. O. address, Box 25SS. 

KURSHEEDT & BIENVENU. 

Builders' Hardware, Mantels, Monuments and Tombs: 114, 120 and 122 Camp street. 

E. J. Kursheedt and J. G. Bienvenu conduct the business established by the 
father of Mr. Kursheedt twenty-eight years ago, occupying the 30-foot store No. 114 
Camp street for the mercantile trade, and the 3'ard 65 x 120 at Nos. 120 and 122 with 
their manufacturing establishment. They employ in the two concerns about 30 men, 
supplying a large part of the South and a fine city patronage with builders' hardware, 
marble, slate and iron mantels, monuments, tombs and headstones. The firm is popu- 
lar and has succeeded well not only in retaining the trade of the elder Kursheedt, but 
in building up new custom as time rolled on. It has an excellent reputation for accom- 
modation and liberality, stands high in all quarters, and may fairly be regarded as the 
representative house of the trade. 

THE PLANTERS' SUGAR REFINING CO. 

John Barkley, President; A. A. Lelong Secretary: Office and Salesroom, No. i St. Louis street. 

Established in 18S0, this refinery is the foremost representative of that industry in 
all this section. The works cover an entire block, and employ about one hundred and 
fifty men. The Planters' Refinery supplies a trade extending as far north as Council 
Bluffs, la., and west into New Mexico. Amongst other apparatus notable for size it 
has in its outfit one nine-foot vacuinn pan, and one twelve-foot pan for boiling sugar. 
The twelve-foot pan is the largest in Louisiana and probably in all the South. It will 
hold about 135 barrels of sugar. This refinery has a capacity for turning out 1,000 bar- 
rels a day — 300 pounds to the barrel. 

President Barkley is the senior member of the firm of Barkley, Thomson & Co., 
factors. He is thoroughly posted in all the minutiae of refining and sugar produc- 
tion. 

The products of this refinery are well known to this market as Cut Loaf, Powdered, 
Granulated, Confectioner's A, Standard A, Fancy Yellow, Augusta, Greenfield, and all 
other grades of Refined Sugars, Syrups and Molasses. P. O. Box, 953. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 145 

P. MACOU & CO. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Fancy and Staple Dry Goods: No. 204 Poydras street, corner of 

Baronne. 

The metnbers of the firm now operating the "Poydras Market Red Store," the 
•cheapest dry goods house in the city, are P. Macou and L. Philippe. The house was 
•started in 1844 by John Macou. From 1S54 to 1858 the firm name was P. Macou & Bros. ; 
then P. Macou until 1864, and from that time on until the present as above. The location 
of the house is the conspicuous red corner opposite the corner of the Poydras Market, 
one of the most convenient spots in the city for the accommodation of retail purchas- 
ers. In this three-story brick corner, nine clerks are not thought too many to wait 
iipon the country and city customers of the concern, and salaries aggregating $1000 
•a month are paid them. The filling of plantation orders is made a specialty of the 
Ihouse, and this branch of the establishment has given satisfaction ever since the foun- 
•dation of the house. This old house transacts a business reaching close to $ico,coo a 
year, is popular with the city trade, has always a fine assortment of staple dry goods on 
Tiand (the stock being valued at $35,000), and is universally respected for its fair dealing 
and clever methods. 

CHAS. LOB'S SONS. 

Jobbers of Cloths: 21 Chartres street. 

Forty years ago the establishment of Charles Lob was not extraordinarily con- 
spicuous, but the house has grown with the times until it takes position with the best 
of them. The original founder of it is dead, but his three sons, Charles, Godfrey, and 
Solomon still conduct it in the line to which his efforts were directed, viz., to supply 
the Southern section with imported cloths, etc. 

Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi are the best markets for the house, but it has 
ti-ade farther away than any of these districts. The brothers Lob were born here and 
having been bred to this particular line, and understanding it thoroughly, have always 
remained with it. They have widespread connections, a profitable patronage, plenty 
of resources, and are well considered wherever they trade. 

THE NONOTUCK SILK CO. 

Corticelli Spool Silk, etc.; C. H. Sampson ag-ent: 26 Camp street, up stairs. 

The world renowned Nonotuck Silk Mills, of Florence, Haj^deville and Leeds, 
Mass., with its agencies in every large city in the land, is a familiar name to all house- 
Tiold mistresses. The rapidly increasing demand for high-grade spool silk has ex- 
panded these works from the little venture of the year 1838, until they have a trade un- 
a-ivalled on the great globe. They are undoubtedly the largest silk mills in America. 
Five years ago, the growing trade of this section demanding inci-eased facilities, an 
agency was established in New Orleans under the management of Mr. Alfred Clark. 
Subsequently the branch was transferred to the supervision of Mr. C. H. Sampson, who 
■directs the St. Louis and Cincinnati affairs of the company also. These agencies do 
only a wholesale and jobbing trade. The jobbers and country merchants of Alabama, 
Mississippi, Texas and this State are supplied from this point. 

The Nonotuck Mills employ moi'e hands (mostly girls) than any in this country. 
The most popular sewing silk is the " Corticelli." The finest knitting silk is the " Flor- 
ence." The special manufactures of the mills are spool silk and machine twist, silk ho- 
siery and underwear, mittens, embroidering and filoselle stuffs, etc. 

Mr. J. G. Gregory is in charge af the New Orleans department during Mr. Samp- 
son's absence. The Nonotuck Mills have prepared an exhibit of their superior products 
that outrivals all others at the great Exposition. It is displayed under Mr. Sampson's 
personal direction. The arrangement of it is most creditable to his taste and judgment. 
It is one of the grand features of the World's Fair. 

E. FEIBLEMAN & SON. 

' Wholesale Grocers: 21 and 23 South Peters street, corner Gravier. 

Feibleman & Son are the successors of the well known firm of Hirsch & Feeble- 
man. Holding an honorable position in the wholesale and jobbing giocery trade of 
New Orleans, the house of Feibleman & Son deserves mention in accordance with the 
importance of its business. 



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The Industries of New Orleans. 



The senior member of the firm has had a long and practical experience, and he 
knows every detail of the grocery trade. He knows intimately what the trade wants, 
and has de\'oted his attention to supplying these demands. The son is no less qnalified. 

The stock carried by this house is equal to that of any other house in the city. No 
facility is wanting to expedite business, the premises being capacious, with every 
means available for speedy shipment and handling. Orders from the interior receive 
the promptest attention, the filling of these being one of the features of the business. 
Customers of the house rely upon receiving what they send for with a certainty that 
ne\er fails. 

The trade of the house is spread over the whole Gulf coast, with considerable ex- 
ports to foreign coimtries. The business with city jobbers and retailers too is heavy. 

DELERY & PURVES- 

Weighers and Gangers: ^^ Nortli Front street, near Conti. 

Both the members of this firm, J. A. Delery and Jno. T. Purves, are veterans in 
their business. Mr. Delery was born in New Orleans and has been in this avocation 
since 1847. Mr. Purves was formerly connected with the Cotton Factorage business. 
Prior to 18S0, when they formed a co-partnership they were employed by others. 
Their long acquaintance and experience theretofore speedily secured them a satisfac- 
tory patronage afterward. They are experts at their business and perform services for 
people in all parts of the South. They have a reputation for reliability and compe- 
tency unexcelled by any other concern of the kind hereabouts. 

BAUMANN & JUNG. 

Importers and Dealers in Fine Wines and Liquors: 29 Camp and 116 Common streets. 

Although the books of the house of Baumann & Jung (the old Sazerac House) date 
back to the year 1S37, there have been but three changes in the personnel of the firm, 
and only one in location in all that time. The present proprietors are Emile Baumann 
and L. Emmanuel Jung, both thoroughly conversant with all branches of the trade. 
Tom B. Taylor, a well-known figure in his day, was the original fovmder of the house, 
which from a modest beginning and a mere local patronage has developed into an estab- 
lishment with a trade extending all over the United States. One cause for this growth 
and expansion has been the very general excellence of the manufactm-es of the house, 
and the pains taken with importations of fine and special brands of liquors and wines. 
As the name by which the house was formerly known implies, the world-famous French 
brandv known as Sazerac, is one of these. Baumann & Jung are the sole agents, also, 
for the celebrated Cook's Imperial Champagnes, a beverage declared by the cognoscenti 
to be nearest the perfection of the vintner's skill. These two specialties make for the 
house a steady run of custom, but its principal sales in the Southern market are of the 
fine and unapproachable Peychaud's American Aromatic Bitter Cordial, whose medi- 
cinal and tonic properties are well and widely appreciated. There is hardh' a bar in 
the South that it does not ornament; and, in fact, such is the universal demand for this 
product, that it ma\- truthfully be said the saloons "can not do without it." 

Realizing that the reputation of their house has only been obtained by the strictest 
attention to the quality of their goods for long years, Messrs. Baumann and Jung 
supervise the details of the trade with jealous watchfulness. A deserved popularity, 
confidence and credit has been their reward. 

PAUL GELPI & BRO. 

Importer of Wines, Cordials, Brandies, etc.: 41 and 43 Decatur street. 

Since 1874 this has been one of the principal houses of the quarter in which it is 
located. It is one of those quiet concerns that really do more business than many who 
make a greater display. It is an importing house, and as such maintains connections 
abroad that give it a proper standing with the first-class houses of New Orleans. It is 
the sole agent for the Chateau Pape Clement claret; for the clarets and white wines of 
Nartigue & Bigourdan; cordials of M. Brizard & Roger; brandies of A. C. Meukow 
&Co.; sherries of Duff, Gordon & Co.; ports of Oftley, Cramp & Forester; ver- 
mouth of Noilly Prat and M. Sola; champagne of Roederer and Krug; olive oil of A. 
Puget and J. Plagniol, and sells imported Holland gin. Old Tom gin, Jamaica and 
Santa Cruz rums. Burgundy wines, Kummel, bitters, pale ale and stout, Madeira, 
Rhine wines, Chartreuse, Benedictine, bottles, corks, demijohns and fancy groceries in 
general, at wholesale and retail. 

This is a most excellent example of the mercantile houses of the city of New 
Orleans, and one that should have a high place allotted it in a work of this sort. 



The Industries of New Orleans, 147' 

FELL & CO. 

Fire Insurance : 46 Camp street. 

Imperial Fire Insurance Co., of London Assets, $ 8,664,:roo 

Northern Assurance Co., of London " 13,717,223 

Phenix Insurance Co., of New York " 3)759»035 

Fire Association of Philadelphia " 4,404,647 

Niagara Fire Insurance Co., of New York " 1)874,035 

John R. Fell, doing business as an insurance agent under the firm designation in 
these headlines (the firm name not having been changed since the recent death of the 
other member, Mr. Raimondj) has conducted agencies and acted as the representative 
of numerous stanch Eastern and Foreign Fire Companies, like those above, for some 
nineteen years. His length of service, therefore, makes him one of the seniors (in ex- 
perience, not years) of the profession. His business is largelj' local, but the patronage 
of the interior is also solicited. 

The Imperial Fire Insurance Company, of London, is one of the great and globe- 
famous corporations. Its directors are men noted in the great world of commerce 
and finance centering at London. It has immense capital and resources, and its United 
States branch is of itself larger than very many companies; its assets in this country 
being over $1,000,000, while its liabilities are only some $340,000. 

The Northern Assurance Company, of Aberdeen ("Scotland) and London, has 
$14,500,000 of cash assets. It was established in 1S36, and its great seal appropriately 
bearing the motto, " Strong as the Strongest," is a fit emblem of its financial supremacy. 
It was first established in the United States in 1876. Since that time it has paid fire 
losses amounting to $2,000,000, these figures showing the immensity of its business. 
Prompt settlement of claims and strictly moderate rates, are the rules which its agents- 
are directed to follow. 

The Phoenix Insurance Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has a capital of a million;: 
a gross surplus of $2,295,326; and assets equaling its capital and surplus together. It is- 
a well managed concern. 

The Fire Association of Philadelphia, another whose name is to be found in the 
above list, has assets of $4,312,270, and a surplus reaching $1,211,161, evidence of dis- 
creet and careful conduct by its directors. 

Last, but not least in point of reliability and promptness, on the list of solid com- 
panies represented by this agency, is found the Niagara Fire Insurance Company, of 
New York, with good assets amounting to nearly $2,000,000. 

The five companies together offer the merchant and property holder protection 
against fire, backed by thirty millions of dollars, and furnishing the assured the abso- 
lute, certainty of payment of the amount insured under their policies, even though the 
entire city should be burned. 

LAFARGUE & BRIERRE. 

Books, Church Ornaments, Foreign Literature, etc: 167 Royal street. 

This house carries the greatest stock of religious books and church ornaments of 
any in New Orleans, and has a large trade therein to supply abroad, including Mexico, 
Hondui-as and the Spanish American States, as well as the foreign residents of Louisi- 
ana. It was established in 1877, by Ludovic Lafargue and Paul Brierre, and having- 
direct connection with Paris, has facilities for this line of trade altogether unequalled' 
in this quarter of the globe. A most extensive variety' is always on hand, including the 
following: 

Articles de Fantaisie, Works of Art and Fancy Articles, Theological Books, French 
and English Classics, Masterpieces of Literature, Lives of the Saints in French and' 
English, Objects de Piete, Images, Medals, Chaplet Statues, Papeterie, Pictures and all^ 
sorts of ornaments of a sacred character. These goods are sold at most i-easonable' 
rates and are of all grades. 

FELIX LOEB & CO. 

Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Wines, Liquors and Cigai-s: 23 Decatur street, opposite the Postoffice 

Felix and Isaac Loeb started the house which bears their family name about eight 
years ago. They had been residents of the city before that time for many years and' 
had always been in the liquor trade. Both are young men, but their capabilities are- 
illustrated in the fact that they have worked their way up from clerkships. Their 
standing in the business world is indicated by the fact that they have been en- 
trusted with the agency for Louisiana of the Schlitz Milwaukee ueer. They make ai 



14S The Industries of New Orleans. 



specialty of pure Bourbon and Rye whiskies, and are sole agents in this State for the 
Blue Ribbon Bottling Company, of St. Louis. They also handle the choice products 
of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company. They are a fine, energetic and brisk tirm, 
-and ci-editable representatives of the activity and spirit of the younger generation of 
JNew Orleans merchants. 

A. ENSMINGER. 

■Crescent Steam Trunk Manufactory ; Also Waterproof Clothing : Depot, So Canal street ; Factory, Tchoui:- 
itoulas street, between Lyun and Upper Line. 

F. Balier was the original proprietor of this house, he having started its operations 
in i8j3. In 1S65, A. Ensminger, whose partner is Wm. Zimmerman, succeeded to the 
business. The salesrooms of this establishment are at So Canal street. Its factory is 
at the situation described above. Being one of the oldest as well as most prosperous 
concerns in its line, this manufactory has been established on an enduring basis. Its 
specialties are the manufacture of ladies' and gentlemens' traveling and packing trunks, 
valises, bags, etc., and waterproof clothing. In these branches it employs some forty 
■hands. Having a strong capital and ample resources, its trade with all parts of the 
South, and with Mexico, is profitable and widespread. 

RUDOLPH F. THEURER. 

Importer of Groceries and Liquors: 16 North Peters, between Hospital and Barracks streets. 

G. Theurer, the founder of this establishment, opened the house about thirty- 
iive years ago. He was the uncle of the merchant whose name the concern bears — 
Mr. R. F. Theurer. That fine tradesman, who was much esteemed in his lifetime, had 
Jived here some thirty-three years, and was employed by other large concerns in various 
business capacities until he finally went into the business of groceries and liquors after 
a short term of service in the clothing trade. He was for a long time head salesman 
for the elder Theurer, and in 1S69 succeeded that prosperous personage in the manage- 
.ment of the house at 16 North Peters street. Thereafter he continued the business in 
his own name until his death, some few months ago, whereupon his son, Chas. W. 
Theurer, acquired his interests, but continued the firm name without change. Mr. 
Chas. W. Theurer has li\ed here since his infancy. He was bred to this business and 
has a capable understanding of it. 

This house is sole agent for the Golden Crown Bourbon, W. S. Schroeder's Rye, 
the Vanilla Whiskey, and other choice brands. It handles, also, all kinds of wines, 
•etc., and does a magnificent business in groceries with the country parishes. It is a 
house of the first order. 

EDWARD F. ERTZ. 

Engraver on Wood; Designing, Drafting, Sketching from Nature, etc.: 46 Camp street, corner Gravier. 

The fine artistic wood engravings of the Exposition buildings now being displayed 
in the shop windows, are the work of a gentleman who may justly claim to stand at the 
head of his art in this \icinity — Edward F. Ertz. He has the largest establishment and 
really the only one of the kind in the South. He has the only routing machine (used 
for removing waste wood after the block is finished) in this city, and his ruling machine 
for making straight, waved and pattern lines, is the first that was ever brought to this 
place. This apparatus is absolutely essential to accurate mechanical work, as the rout- 
ing machine is to facilitate the operations of the ofiice, and to save time and labor. 

Mr. Ertz was bred to the business in Chicago, where the finest work in America is 
now done. There he served his five years' apprenticeship. He has been four years in 
the business here, and, as before remarked, is accounted one of the inost clever hands 
in it. He succeeded to the well established patronage of Hunter, Genslinger & Co., one 
year ago, and has a fine custom extei.ding over Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. The 
Exposition illustrations in this book are samples of his ability. They are the most 
graphic pictures of the great concern yet published. 

BARKLEY, THOMSON & CO. 

Sugar, Molasses and Rice: 35 North Peters street. 

About the heaviest molasses business transacted here, and a very considerable part 
of the sugar trade, is that done by this first-class establishment. The house designated 
in the caption of this account dates from 1S61, but the members of the firm have all had 
years of experience in this particular line. 

Mr. John Barkley is President of the Planters' Sugar Refining Company. He has 
iHved in this vicinity twenty-four years, and has been connected with the sugar 
^industry about all of that time. Mr.'W. J. Thomson is a planter as well as factor. He 



The Industries of New Orleans. iaq^ 

owns a large sugar estate. He was born in New Orleans, but had lived abi-oad until 
he acquired his interest in this house. Although still a young man, he is identified 
with the best interests ot his section. Mr. R. B. Scudder hails from New York, but his- 
fifteen years' residence here entitles him to be classed as permanently located. He ha& 
been interested in sugar from his first arrival, having been formerly of the firm Dymond & 
Gardes, large dealers in the staple. The fourth member of the firm, Mr. C. E. Luther 
was for fifteen j^ears an employe of the very house in which he now holds an interest, 
which fact well illustrates his experience and capacity. 

This house supplies not alone the Southern trade in the products, sugar, molasses 
and rice, but the Western and Northern markets as well. As can be seen from this ac- 
count, it is one of the first houses of the city in its branch of trade; entirely sound, re- 
sponsible and safe. 

LOUIS SCHWARTZ. 

Engines, Pumps and all kinds of Machinery: 149 to 159 Mag-azine street. 

Started in the most humble way, this house has grown from a small and modest 
beginning to be the first house in its line in New Orleans, and indeed in the entire 
South. Louis Schwartz succeeded to the business of M. Schwartz & Co. in 1870, since 
which time there has been no variation of the progress antecedent to that. All kinds- 
and styles of machinery are dealt in as a specialty, the very many and bulky forms of 
which require the occupancy of the premises 150x170 on Magazine street. Twenty em- 
ployes are on the pay roll all the time. Among other stock constantly on hand, there 
is kept bar, hoop, sheet and boiler iron; anvils, sledges, road scrapers, nails, and all 
kinds of rivets, bolts, nuts and washers, shovels, spades, steam whistles, anchors, chains 
bellows, vises, steam gauges, rubber hose, belting and packing; steel blacksmiths' tools 
wheel-barrows, steam and gas pipe fittings, water gauges and pipe. The house is also- 
the resident agents for Dean's steam pumps, Friedman's patent injectors and ejectors 
and for steel barbed wire. 

In Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the wares of this firm are in great 
demand because of their superior quality and durability. Mr. Schwartz is also well 
known from his connection with the Pontchartrain railroad enterprises. 

J. HART. 

Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, etc.: No, 4S St. Charles street. 

Mr. J. Hart, Senior, established himself in the jewelry and loan business in New- 
Orleans more than forty-five years ago. The loan ofBce, No. 43 Baronne street, which 
is still doing business, was conducted by him. During a period of thirty years he was 
the chief diamond mepchant of this vicinity, having made the purchase and sale of 
gems a specialtj' of his business. He had an expert knowledge of precious stones far 
surpassing any other dealer, and was recognized as the finest judge of jewels in the city. 
At the suggestion of his son, Samuel J. Hart, in 1S83, he opened the establishment de- 
scribed in this sketch, corner St. Chai'les and Gravier streets, fitting up there a most 
attractive store, which has now a large city trade, and fills numerous country orders. 
The son inherits the family aptitude for the diamond trade, and this is one of the spe- 
cialties of the place. To the repairing of watches and jewelry particular attention is 
paid, skilled artisans being retained for that purpose. An elegant selection of fine jew- 
elry can be purchased at very low prices. 

MILLER & DIELMANN. 

Steam Candy Manufacturers and Wholesale Confectioners; Manufacturers of Syrups; Depot for Fire.- 

works; Ageuts for California Wines and Brandies: go, 52 »nd 54 FeteVs street (late 

New Levee street), corner Natchez Alley 

This is one of the best known houses of the South. It Avas founded in 1857. The 
trade of the firm is largely with the Southern States, but a specialty is made ot supply- 
ing Mexico fcnd South America with sweetmeats, cordials, etc. Besides the agency for 
the best brands of California wines and brandies, the house holds that of Frank Fehr's 
family beer, Rhen's mineral water, and H. P Diehl's fireworks. The manufacture of 
sugar of lemons, and syrups, is an extensive branch of this firm's trade. So also is prize 
candy of every description. The firm has often come into competition with other 
houses of its kind, not onh for the profits of its business enterprise, but for the honor 
of public approval, as, for instance, when five premiums were awarded it at the Texas 
State Fair of 1S71. Louisiana premiums are held by it for the following years: 1S66 
first premium and gold medal; 1868, all premiums and medals; 1869, two diplomas and' 
medals; 1870, two diplomas and medals; 1871, six diplomas and medals; 1S73, eight 
diplomas and medals; 1S76, one medal. 



150 The Industries of New Orleans. 

Of this gratifying proof of the general excellence of their wares, the firm is justly 
proud. A stock of fireworks is always on hand. A large and complete stock of every- 
tliing for the trade is kept in store, and is offered at the lowest market rates. 
The facilities for supplying the special lines mentioned, are of the most complete char- 
acter. It can be relied upon that dealers sending orders will ha\e them satisfactorily 
filled, since no house in the whole country has a better reputation for turning out first- 
class goods. The double Crown brand of fancy mixed candies in thirty-pound buckets 
is a specialtv of this house's manufacture that should not be overlooked in an account 
of this firm's wares. 

C, B. BUDDECKE & CO. 

General Commission Merchants: 78 Magazine street, near Poytlras. 

C. B. Buddecke & Co. ai-e the successors to C. T. Buddecke, the father of C. B., 
jind one of the soundest and most conspicuous merchants of his day. He is now re- 
tired from active business life. The house was started by him in 1836, and the manage- 
ment of it was taken by the son about eight years ago. 

A general commission business is imdertaken, flour and Western produce being 
tlie specialties. 

The establishment is in the conspicuous center of the business portion of the citv, 
convenient to all the transportation lines, and in every way prepared to facilitate the 
connection of producer and consumer. The change from father to son has not altered 
the characteristics of the house, which is old-fashioned in its integrity, but modern in 
its enterprise. 

D. MERCIER & SONS. 

Mens', Youths' and I'ovs' Clothiiiar, etc., at Wholesale and Retail: 51 to 57 Dauphine street, corner of 

Bienville. 

The largest establishment in the clothing line, botii as regards the amount of stock 
carried and the volume of its transactions, is that of which these paragraphs are an 
account. It has been run now for about 30 years and has merited the good opinions 
of its patrons for all that time. D. Mercier & Sons began in a moderate way, but they 
have prospered bv good management and honorable dealings, until they have just about 
as much business as their force can properlj- attend to, and the trade is now not only 
■retail but wholesale also. 

Country merchants find this one of the most satisfactory houses of the city to deal 
-with. Its terms are always reasonable and orders for goods upon it are promptly re- 
sponded to. The retail and local custom is attended to on the first fioor; the whole- 
saling in the upper stories. 

Mr. D. Mercier, whose name the house still bears, died in 1871. His sons J. L. 
and J. A. Mercier who were bred to the business, now conduct it. This house has no 
branch store in town. Connected with the Telephone Exchange. 

M. H. NESTLER. 

General Insurance Agent: 3 Varieiies Place : The Thames & Mersey Marine Insurance Company, of 

Liverpool; Universal Marine Insurance Company, of London; Union Insurance 

Company, of Philadelphia (Marine) at New Orleans. 

The gentleman whose name appears in these headlines, pays special attention to 
marine insurance. With three of the first companies of the world, and an expert 
knowledge gained by many years experience, Mr. M. H. Nestler is regarded as an author- 
ity upon that line or the business. He has been the resident representative of these 
companies since 1877, has settled impartially but generously all the claims against 
them, and has maintained for all three a high" standard as regards indemnity, by care- 
ful and cautious management, a policy which adds to the security of the insured as 
well as to the profits of the companies. 

The Union, of Philadelphia, can claim all the merits— stability, reliability, and 
consequent prosperity — that come from an advanced age. It was founded in the early 
years of the present century and ranks with the firmest and soundest corporations of 
the great Keystone State. It has paid with ease since its organization, losses amount- 
ing to $12,389,432; returning dividends to its stockholders at the same time amounting 
to $1,839,599. its present financial condition is first-class. With a capital of a million 
dollars, ithas assets of $1,392,065 and a surplus as to policy holders of $1,026,063. Its 
certificates of insurance are made payable in Europe, the company having funds with 
bankers at London, Paris, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Bremen and Hamburg, together with 
adjusters of losses at the same points. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



Tne Thames and Mersey Insurance Company, of Liverpool, London and Man- 
chester, another great company for which Mr. Nestler is agent, has assets reaching 
$5,500,000, and a surphis, including its paid up capital of a million dollars, of $3,934,- 

I73-29- 

The Universal Marine Insurance Company' (limited) has deposited with the Insur- 
ance department of the State of New York, for the special benefit of its policyholders, 
$300,000 in United States bonds. This company has a reserve fund equal to its capital. 
The chairman of its London board of directors is Sir John Lubbock, Lombard street 
banker, one of lights of the Old World finance. 

Owners of sea-going property should remember that the conservative character and 
methods of the British institutions offer special security for losses. Safeguards of a 
character unusual in America are exacted of these corporations by the laws of the Old 
Countrv. 

L. J. DUFFY. 

Manufacturer of Trunks, Bafifs, Valises, etc.: No. 24 Baronne street, between Canal and Common. 

About thirty years ago, y . A. Turnell opened for business the establishment described 
in this sketch. Later on, Mr. L. J. Duffy was admitted to a share of the business as a 
silent partner, and in 1879, ^J ^^'^^ death of the original founder, Mr. Duffy came into 
sole possession. The trunks, bags and traveling outfits of the concern have always had 
a reputation for neatness and durability. Mr. Duffy has departed somewhat from the 
old and worn-out fashions, and introduced some new and elegant designs in his line, 
that other dealers have afterward adopted. Turnell left a fortune made in the business, 
and Mr. Duffy has not been less fortunate than he. Something like twenty hands are 
employed, all of them first-class workmen, who, however, are carefully supervised, that 
the well-known reputation of the factory may not be carelessly lost. The business con- 
duct of this house at all times has been irreproachable. 

THE PARISIAN SHIRT FACTORY. 

F. Giieble, Proprietor Gents Furnishino; Goods and Steam Laundrj': Factory, 23 to 27 Conti street, 
Salesrooms, 137 Canal street. 

A conspicuous manufacturing industry of New Orleans is that carried on at the 
Parisian Shirt Factory, the largest in that line in Louisiana. Mr. F. Gueble, the pro- 
prietor, came from Paris in 1849, ^^^*^ ^^ ^^^ ^'^^ until 1854 that he invested in the busi- 
ness to which he has giv-en the name of his native city. The specialty of the factory 
is the manufacture of shirts and underwear to order, the house claiming to make a 
most superior article, a claim that seems to ineet with the popular indorsement, for the 
retail stores at 137 Canal street are the best patronized in the city. This is parti v be- 
cause of the excellence of the goods, and as much on account of the moderate prices. 
Something like a hundred hands are emploj'ed in the factory and laundry, and one 
hundred to one hundred and fifty shirts is the average product of their labor per day. 
Besides its own make, the house imports largely Foreign and Eastern goods, such as 
neckties, gloves, hosiery, canes, umbrellas, bathing suits, etc., all of the finest quality, 
but not nev.ertheless sold at f^ncy prices. This is one of the most reasonable institu- 
tions of its line, and is a creditable representative of the manufacturing enterprise of 
the city. Country orders solicited. 

JOHN FISCHER. 

Successor to Gresliam: Bookseller, Stationer and Printer : Corner of Camp and Common streets, 
James A. Gresham's withdrawal from the Stationery Trade which took place some 
time since, was the opportunity for the young but aspiring manager of his affairs, who 
is the subject of this sketch, to assume a place for which his experience, acquaintance 
and ability amply fit him. Mr. Gresham was well known as the leading dealer of the 
City in the line of Law Books and Blanks, and as Mr. Fischer has been bred to this 
line, having served the whole twelve years of his business career therein, he is thoroughly 
competent to direct the concerns of the establishment. The house has a fine run of 
custom. Its field of operation lies principally in the belt 01 States of which this is a 
part, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama. As a house of eighteen years standing, 
carrying the largest and most varied stock, and maintaining always the confidence of 
patrons and the trade, it offers to the new proprietor a chance which doubtless he will 
not be slow to avail himself of. Thoroughly imbued with modern business principles, 
determined, posted and spirited, he has already shown that [the house has embarked 
upon a new era, that its transactions will be expanded, its resources enlarged and its 
whole proceedings enlivened b_v vigorous and faithful management. The change is a 
happy one for all concerned. 



152 » The Industries of New Okleans. 

WASHBURN'S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. 

PiiotOirraplis, Porlriiits, Ciavons, Oils, Water Color, Pastel Work, etc. ; Retouching and Enlarging 

of Photographs: 109 Canal street. 

The oldest, largest, and most complete photographing establishment, not alone of 
New Orleans, but of the whole South, is that described in this sketch. It was first 
opened in 1S44 b}' its present proprietor, who has kept pace with the progress of the 
art, and has brought his gallery by continued improvements to the highest state of 
etficiency. He has the only enlarging camera in the city, a large reflecting solar appa- 
ratus that cost a good roimd sum, but could not be dispensed with in a really first-class 
gallery like this one. 

The reception room of this gallery is elegantly furnished. In it is hung examples 
of the fine art achievements of the gallery in the shape of life-like crayon and other 
portraitures of notable men and eminent citizens of the time, taken from life. This is 
the gallery thaf finished the grand crayon portrait of Ed. Richardson, President of the 
World's Exposition. The cordial invitation extended by the courteous proprietor tO' 
visit the gallery should by all means be taken advantage of. It contains a world of 
interesting matter that certainly can not elsewhere be seen. 

Mr. Washburn is a business man of great breadth and high spirit. The profits of 
his gallery have been put into other enterprises, and he has long been regarded on this 
account as a man of prominence in mercantile affairs, and therefore one to be selected 
as a representative man. He was at one time a director of the New Orleans Water 
Company, and still retains an interest in that corporation. He was also the president 
of the Dry Dock Company. These positions are here remarked simply to show the 
estimation in which this active citizen is held. At the present time he is interested in 
the business of the firm of Washburn & Luckner, who run a large box factory, and in 
several other enterprises of greater moment. He is much sought after to assist all the 
new ventures of the time, and has the reputation of being a man of great shrewdness, 
foresight and courage in seizing a business opportunity. These are characteristics that 
are regarded as rare combinations in a single individual, but the subject of this sketch 
has repeatedly shown that he posseses them. 

BAKER, SLOO & CO. 

Manufacturers and Importers of Saddlery, Harness, Collars, etc.: 6 Magaicine and 54 Canal street 

^K^^^^^^^^HH Nnl^ somest, as well as the largest buildings 

^^^H^^^^pH^^V HH ^^ ^'^^ wholesale quarter of New Orleans 

^BJI^^^^^^^^HBK IffiH '^ occupied by this house, the premises 

TRADE ^^1 BRAND ^K^Bkimi MARK numbered 6Magazine and 54 Canal street. 

JH J ji S^=- M though of recent establishment, is known 

Orleans. Thf^. firm are manufacturers as well as dealers, their own goods finding ready 
sale, on account of superior workmanship, throughout the South and Southwest. They 
make a specialty of fine hand-made harness, employ only the most experienced work- 
men and carry the fullest line outside of New York of fine robes, blankets, whips, etc., 
for the retail "trade. 

They are also agents for the leading manufacturers of Great Britain and the North, 
having the sole privilege for the sale of the celebrated goods of Fairbanks, Lavender & 
Sons' Eldon street Saddlery Works of Walsall, Eng., and of numerous northern and 
eastern factories. The New York Belting and Packing Co. 's Rubber Goods, and Chas. 
A. Schieren Si. Co.'s Leather Belting can fee bought only from this establishment. In 
the line of Rubber Goods, Hose, Leather Belting, Laee Leather, etc., they have a stock 
beyond that of any house outside of New York. Messrs. Baker, Sloo & Co., have been 
appointed Southern agents for the famous Gandy Belting and carry the only complete 
stock of it in this section. 

And of miscellaneous articles peculiar to their line of trade, they carry an unusu- 
ally heavy quantity. They employ steadily in their sales and manufacturing depart- 
ments over loo men. It is sufiicient to mention the name of this firm to impart confi- 
dence in any sort of transaction to which they are a party. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 153 



T. J. HOQAN.— WM. HOGAN, AGENT. 

Manufacturer and'Dealer in fine French, Eno-lish and American Shoes: 99 Canal street. New Orleans. 

This establishment was founded in 1S35, fifty years ago, by John A. Turnell. Sub- 
■sequently it passed into the hands of the parties mentioned in these headlines. This 
house is one of the best patronized on the great central thoroughfare of the Crescent 
City. Its principal custom is for fine ladies and gents wear, and these lines of goods 
iliave been made a specialty by the management of the house. Besides the manufac- 
ture of that sort of article, the special agency for several fine makers is held by this 
■concern. Amongst others, Jos. L. Joyce of New Haven, Conn., and Reynolds Bros, 
of Utica, N. Y. Reynolds Bros, are the largest factory in the United States in the line 
of laiiei, misses, and children's fine shoes. This being the oldest retail shoe store in 
New Orleans, has a class of patrons who want only fine goods. 

Mr. Hogan has lived here since 1S43. Beginning as a clerk and workman, in 1S46 
he had acquired an interest and in 1S57 by purchasing Mr. Turnell's intei-est, had ob- 
itained the entire business. His son now shares the cares of management with him. 



THE WHITNEY NATIONAL BANK. 

Jas T. Hayden, President; Jas. M. Pagaud Jr., Cashier: 137 Gravier street. 

The Whitney National bank was organized November 5, 1SS3. On Dec. 31st, 
1884, a statement of its condition was published that indicated its conduct to have 
been successful, careful and reliable. According to the cashier's account then ren- 
dered, the resources and liabilities of the bank wei-e as follows : 

RESOURCES. 

. Loans and discounts .$752,065 22 

U. S. bonds to secure circulation 50,000 00 

Five per cent, redemption fund 2,250 00 

Furniture and fixtures 4)087 So 

Due from reserve agents 63,024 oS 

Due from other banks and bankers • 13,851 74 

-Cash, inducing checks on other banks 321,524 30 

$1,307,704 22 

LIABILITIES. 

•Capital stock $400,000 00 

•Surplus fund S,ooo 00 

Undivided profits 3)4i8 55 

X)ividend unpaid (4 per cent now declared) 16,000 00 

Circulation 4S,ooo 00 

Due to banks aud bankers 65,542 25 

Individual depositors 670,743 42 

$1,207,704 22 

December 30, 18S4, a dividend of four per cent, was declared, payable on 
■demand. 

The directors of the institution are : James T. Hayden (President) . Pearl Wight 
(Vice President) : George Q. Whitney, Chas. M. Whitney, Henry Newman, John H. 
Maginnis, J. S. West, Jr., George E. Sears, James M. Walsh. Its New York corres- 
pondents are The Mechanics National Bank and Chas. M. Whitney & Co, 

The capital of this bank, as may be seen from the report i-eprinted above, is $400,- 
•000. The institution has now been long enough in operation, to prove that it has ob- 
tained to a i-emarkable degree the confidence of the business community. This is 
partly because there was a necessity and a field for it, and partly on account of the 
high opinion entertained generally of its Executive officers and directors- Particular 
.attention is paid to Collections and Correspondence. 



i^^ The Industries of New Orleans*. 

J. D. HAWKINS & CO. 

Cotton Factors antl Commission Merchants: 40 Union street,, up -stairs. 

Col. J. D. Hawkins, director of the Union National bank, one of the Board of the:- 
Sun Mutual Insurance Company, and a member of the Cotton Exchange, has lived in 
the citv of New Orleans twelve years, and although he maintains a residence and plan- 
tation "in Mississippi, is sincerely devoted to the advancement of those interests which 
have made the Crescent City the metropolis of the great and growing South. He has a 
partnership in, and is the senior member of the firm whose name heads this chapter, A. G. 
Lobdell, who was the cashier of the house of Hawkins <Sc Roberts, cotton factors and 
commission merchants, until 1SS3, being his associate. Hawkins & Roberts, it is per- 
haps necessary to state, were the successors to the business of Vaiden, Torrence & 
Hawkins, a house that opened its doors in the year 1S70, thus making the present estab- 
lishment one of fourteen years' standing. Both Messrs. Hawkins and Lobdell havCL: 
been in the cotton trade all their lives, and either may be taken as authority upon alL 
matters connected with it. Besides their cransactions in that staple they do a heavy 
business in general commissions and Southern produce, making advances upon con- 
signments, and receiving shipments, orders for purchase, and performing all the et- 
ceteras of a factorage trade in any part of the South to which such operation, may be 
directed. Perfected arrangements therefor, and a complete system, based on long e.\- 
perience, enables them to compete with the speediest concerns of this section. Of 
credit, capital and resources, they have an abundance. This house has subscribed. 
liberallv, through the Exchange and aside from it, to the Exposition scheme. Duly- 
appreciating the commercial importance of that project to the cotton trade, and the 
undoubted stimulus it must be to all branches of home industry, the house has not 
been behind its neighbors in urging the event and in encouraging its management to- 
persevere until success was finally assured. 

JOHN J. GRAGARD. 

General Commission Merchant with Cotton and the Purchase of Merihandise a Specialty: 48 Unioni 

street. 

Mr. John J. Gragard has an extended acquaintance with Eastern Texas, and that 
portion of Northern Louisiana adjacent to Shreveport, where he was in the wholesale: 
dry goods trade for ten years before coming to New Orleans, and was most favorably- 
regarded by the merchants and planters of that section. 

Settling in New Orleans some eight years ago, he formed the partnership knownc 
as Gragard & Farrar, but afterward assumed sole responsibility and managements 
Since that event he has been most actively identified with the commission trade, and is. 
thoroughly posted on all matters relating to cotton and general merchandise; in fact, 
no man here is better posted therein than Mr. Gragard. All transactions had with hirru 
may be relied upon to be completely performed on behalf of customers, consignors of 
cotton or purchasers of merchandise. Orders for goods will be executed by him to the 
very best advantage for all concerned. He buys strictly for cash, and makes most liberal! 
advances on consignments. 

Mr. Gragard has a most excellent record in business affairs. He is respected as an 
upright and competent merchant, able to perform those mercantile services that falB 
within his line, equal to the best of his competitors, and honorable to the last degree.. 

THE PEOPLE'S BANK OF NEW ORLEANS. 

U. Mnrinoni, President; X. Landry, Cashier: Corner cf Decatur and Custoniliouse streets. 

This is one of the most useful and most substantial monetary institutions in the 
city of New Orleans. It was organized in 1S69. Its paid in capital is $300,000, its- 
surplus $!;o,ooo. The directors are: A. Socola, E. K. Converse, U. Marinoni, E. Du- 
bois, C. H. Dolsen, D. A. Lanaux, J. J. Reiss, Joseph David, Leopold Scheuer (of 
Levy, Loeb, Scheuer & Co.) 

The bank was removed from its former location at St. Peter and Decatur streets, 
to its present central elegant and commodious quarters in 1S77. Its last statement 
shows a long line of loans and discounts, together with t- xtensive dealings in domestic 
exchange, and large collections made for customers all over the United States. Its New 
York correspondent is the Merchants National bank there. 

This bank has done a prosperous business since its organization, paying its divi- 
dends regularly, and successfully weathering all the financial storms that have shaken 
or wrecked other institutions. It has extended valuable aid to the manufacturing and 
commercial enterprises of the city, and has been rewarded with a large and steady 
patronage. The officers of this ba^nk have had long and valuable experience in their 
line, and are regarded as amongst the most accomplished amd courteous of their class- 



The Industries of New Orleans. 155 

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE. 

Agence de New Orleans; A. Schreiber: 61 Carondelet street. 

Five Steamers of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, have for two years- 
been carrying freight between New Orleans and Havre. These vessels run direct, and 
are loaded on their outward trip chiefly with cotton and grain. Commerce in miscel- 
laneous merchandise is slowh' developing via this line, which operates like the other 
French routes, to cheapen greatly in this market all the products of the older country. 
It is a patent fact that imported materials like furnishing and dress goods, can be pur- 
chased cheaper in New Orleans than elsewhere on the American continent. This di- 
rect advantage to the consumers is not entirely appreciated by them, nevertheless the 
line which is the subject of this sketch has received much encouragement from the ex- 
porters and is progressing wonderfully well considering the short time it has been in 
operation. 

Mr. Schreiber will be discovered by those trading with him, to be a most excellent 
manager and accommodating gentleman. He is exceedingly well liked by all who have 
had transactions with him. 

R. H. CHAFFE & BRO. 

Wholesale Grccers and Importers: 36 to 41. Common ; 7 and 9 Peters street, 

Mr. R. H. Chaffe had established the house which still bears his name previous to 
the entry of his brother Charles Chaffe; having been connected with Mr. Richard 
Flower, Jr., before that in the same line of business. He first began to operate as an 
importer and dealer about the year 1S7S. 

This house transacts a business that requires the services of a strong staff, some- 
thing like fifteen finding steady employment the year round. The premises occupied 
indicate to a great extent the character and readth of the business done by the house. 
The handsome and commodious stores, four in number, on Common and Peters streets 
are required for the storage of the various lines of provisions, etc., carried. Texas, 
Arkansas, Mississippi iurnish the house with the larger portion of its trade, but an ex- 
cellent local patronage is also enjoyed. 

In the lines of liquors and cigars there is not an establishment of its sort in the 
city that takes greater pains to satisfy the popular taste. The cigar brand " Our Drum- 
mer," and the "Perfection" Whiskey, specialties of this house, are particularly es- 
teemed in all the Southern markets. This is a thri\ing house, well considered because 
it is generous, and at the same time business-like in its dealings. 

R. H. Chafte is tlie son of John Chaffe. one of the oldest merchants of this State, 
distinguished alike for his ability, candor and integrity. R. H. Chaffe first ventured 
into the grocery trade as silent partner with C. W. Newton, July, '78. He continued 
this relation for two years and then established the house of Chaffe & Fowler, which 
he succeeded in iSSi. He ran the business under his own name until July of 1882, 
admitting W. P. FowU-r at that date to a share in his profits. In '83 Mr. Fowler re- 
tired, and the house of R. H. Chaffe, Bro. & Co. ivas formed. The present firm, R. 
H. Chaffe & Bro , on the retirement of E.J. Brvan, (Oct. 1SS4) succeeded them. 

BLAIR 

THE NEW ORLEANS SUGAR REFINERY. 

Kirchoff Brother?, Refiners and Dealers in Louisiana Sugars, Molasses and Syrups: 103 .and 105 

Tchoupitoulas street. 

Kirchoff Brothers central factory and New Orleans sugar refinery, at 103 and 
105 Tchoupitoulas street, is a conspicuous institution of the city. It was established 
in 1S80, and has already attained a special reputation. The proprietors are William P. 
and James W. Kirchoff. 

This concern has many impi-ovements in machinery and refining methods that are 
new to this vicinit}', labor and tiine saving apparatus of recent inventions. They are 
thus particularly well prepared to receive and manufacture all descriptions of Planta- 
tion Products, such as Cane Syrups, Open Kettle Sugars, Open Kettle Molasses, and 
Cistern Bottoms, into high grade sugars. Reboiling molasses can also be promptly 
attended to, and the granulation of plantation syrups given special attention. For the 
facilitation of the process spoken of above, and to assist the commercial transactions 
of customers, a special sugar labor. itory has been constructed within the refinery, the 
advantage of which sugar producers and dealers will readily understand. Circulars 
explaining the superior opportunities of this refinery by reason of its complete machin- 
ery, etc., furnished upon application. Correspondence solicited. 



30 Chartres street are occupied by it. The first tloor is reserved for 
gents fine hats; the second holds the full line of men's wool hats; the 



156 The Industries of NE^v Orleans. 

An indu>lrial enterprise like that herein described merits more tlian a passing no- 
tice in the history of the representative institutions of the city. The sugars turned out 
from this refinery are unapproachable in point of strength, excellence and absolute 
puritv. The svrups bear the same high rank; and the business methods of the man- 
agement are clear and clean, and straight forward always. This is a high commenda- 
tion, but not more than the office of the refinery deserves. 

WM. REINERTH. 

Direct InipDitcr of H.its: 30 Chartres street, corner of Custom House. 

Beyond all question this house has been longer in its line of business then any 
other oi the same sort in New Orleans. It was established in the year 1S47 by J, J. Al- 
bert, who remained with it until his death in 1S72. His son succeeded to his interest. 
Mr. Reinerth was first employed by Mr. Albert, senior, and was afterwards in partner- 
ship with him. Mr. Albert, junior, retired from the business four years ago and Mr. 
Reinerth has since conducted it alone. 

The house furnishes to a fine custom in Louisiana and Mississippi, hats, caps, oil 
and rubber cloths, etc. It carries a large stock and imports direct. Four floors of No. 

~ ' the display of 

e third contains 
the stock of boys' and children's head gear; and the fourth holds the resen-e stock, and 
oil and rubber goods. Its transactions in these lines compare favorably in volume with 
those of anv house here, and it is regarded as a sound concern in every particular. 

Mr. Reinerth has lived here all his life, and is indentified by property invest- 
ments, connections, etc., with the very highest interests of this section. 

DONALD & Mckenzie. 

Boilei M.Tkers anil Blacksmiths ; Steamboat and Marine Work a Specialty : iig'and i2i Front; n2 and 

114 Fulton streets. 

Peter Donald and Robert McKenzie have been in partnership, as explained above, 
for five years, but the establishment operated by them had previously been run by Mr. 
Donald, who has been a master mechanic about all his life. Mr. McKenzie was, before 
he associated himself with Mr. Donald (1S79), the foreman of the boiler works in 
Leed's foundry for some twenty-two years. 

Messrs. Donald and McKenzie, both being expert artisans, have acquired a reputa- 
tion that brings to them the work of the Cromwell Steamship Company and other 
sea-o^oing craft. They have a good run also of the trade of the river vessels. They 
have long been preferred at boiler repairing, and plantation machinery. Flue and cj'l- 
inder work, boiler water tanks, heavy forging, and iron work of all descriptions for 
shipping is done by them at short notice and most reasonable rates. 

Among other fine jobs which these shops have manufactured may be mentioned 
the boilers in the United States Custoni House at New Orleans, of the steamer Dickey and 
of the Gretna ferry line. Those desirous of having lasting Avork done, can get the most 
satisfactory assurances from these parties that the work referred to has been satisfactory 
in every respect. Estimates made and figures furnished. Work invariably finished on 
time. 

R. DANNEEL & BRO. 

Cotton Factors and General Commission Merchants: S5 Carondelet street. 

R. and O. Danneel, sons of H. Danneel, a wealthy and honored cotton merchant in 
his dav, are the partners in this house. Born and bred here, and raised to the cotton 
trade, although voung in years, they have already had an experience equal to that of 
some of the older operators of note, and are equally as earnest and spirited participants 
in the field of commercial activity. The house is an old house, having a history' run- 
inf back forty years, and is the direct successor to the sound and thorough establish- 
ment known as Francke & Danneel, although for convenience it has been operated un- 
der the name of H. Danneel & .Son and Danneel & Co. for some few years. Since 
18S1 the designation at the beginning of this chapter has been maintained, and this firm 
name is now one of the best known on 'Change. 

The long established connections of the house with the producing sections of the 
South, and with the purchasing agencies at home and abroad, give to it numerous 
advantages over more recent houses. 

The brothers Danneel, with a proper pride in maintaining the dignity and reputa- 
tion of the old house are active in their participation in public affairs. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 157' 

S. MENDELSOHN. 

Manufacturer's and distiller's agent: 59 Customhouse street. 

Mr. S. Mendelsohn has lived here long enough to be well and fully identified with 
the business industries that are foremost in this city. He came here from Philadel- 
phia, where he was long connected with one of the best grocery houses of the place, 
and settled down in this field about the year 1870. His trade is principally in whiskeys, 
and is mostly with the city jobbers, but he has several specialties that attract to him a 
fair share of the country patronage also. These are the famous Preston & Merrill's 
Boston Yeast Powder, Fabens & Graham's New England Pickles, Levy & Levis' importa- ^ 
tions of foreign fruits (New York), Elias Block & Son's Cincinnati Whiskey, and several 
others. With these for a foundation it has been easy for him to absorb a patronage. 
He is a recognized wholesaler, and a business man of many fine qualifications. 

EDMOND DUBOIS. 

Importer of Wines and Brandies: 32 Decatur street. 

This fine house dates its history from 1874, when it was established by the gentle- 
man whose name heads this account of it. He has lived here for thirty-seven years, 
and was in the liquor business all of that time, having been a clerk for other large con- 
cerns before venturing for himself. He supplies nothing but jobbers throughout the 
South, West and East, and his trade is largest with New Orleans, Cincinnati, St. Louis 
and Chicago. He is Southern agent for Begue and Justin Pelle, Bordeaux; H. Pouchan, 
Bordeaux; J. Lacosse, Lormont; Videau & Brun, Nice and Bordeaux; A. L. Boiteau 
& Co., Cognac; Mre. Castillion, Jne., Cognac; P. Arnaud, Cette; A. Pellevoisin, 
LaRochelle; Schade & Buysing, Schiedam; B. Reig, Port Vendres; and enjoys a pros- 
perous and expanding patronage. The house is eminently sound and substantial. 

WIDOW GEO. HUYE. 

Steam Box F'actory: 71 Chartres street, between Bienville and Conti streets. 

Wooden, cigar and paper boxes are now so mvich of a necessity that the industry is 
a most important one in every large city. The establishment which is the subject of 
this sketch is about the oldest as well as the largest of the sort in New Orleans. It was 
founded in a small way about the year 1850 by George Huye, who having served at the 
trade in Philadelphia and New York thoroughly understood the business and was re- 
markably successful in building up a piofitable trade in the Crescent City. The result 
of his enterprise is the fine factory operated by steam, and since his death, under the 
management of his widow, who is assisted by her sons, J. A. and E. A. Huve. 

The concern is a fine one. It is 25 x 100 in size, and is four storries high. It em- 
ploys between thirty and fifty men, girls and boys. Its trade is principally with Lou- 
isiana, Mississippi, Texas and the Gulf sections, but it ships also to Mexico. Paper 
and shelf boxes are its specialty. 

KEIFFER BROS. 

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Boots and Shoes: S2 to S6 Common, and 15 Magazine streets; 

Factories in Massachusetts. 

Louis, Julius and SegismUnd Keiffer established the house herein described in 
1S65, svibsequently admitting to an interest in the business the brothers, Leopold and 
Isidore. This is an exceptionally strong concern on acount of its manufacturing and 
trade facilities. The New Orleans house is a branch of the imposing establishment at Bos- 
ton, Nos. 93 and 95 Pearl street. The firm has factories at Marblehead, Rockland, Mil- 
ford and Boston, Massachusetts, the vast affairs of which require the undivided atten- 
tion of the five partners. It is a well known fact to the wholesale trade that freights 
from the far East are much lower than in this vicinity, an ad\'antage that redounds to 
the benefit of houses like the Keiffers,. and indirectly' to that of their patrons. Con- 
signments from the factories of this firm are disposed of rapidly, the proverb, " time is 
money," being thoroughly appreciated by this enterprising establishment. Superior 
material and workmanship are employed, and the facilities only to be enjoyed in the 
great shoe-manufacturing centres where the factories are located, enable them to pro- 
duce their goods at the minimum of cost. All the favorable conditions that surround 
a house of so many years existence combine to give the brethren a commanding posi- 
tion in the trade of the South and Southwest. No house in this belt of States enjoys 
the confidence of its patrons in a greater measure than that of Keiffer Brothers. 



158 



The Industries of Ne\v Orleans. 



THE MERCHANTS' MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. 

Paid up Ca;)ital, .^Ocxj.ooo: P. Foiirchy, President; G. W. Xott, Secretary: 104 Canal street. 



This old and reliable company 
was first chartered in 1832. The 
articles of incorporation have 
been amended from time to time 
since to suit the growth and re- 
quirements of the business, al- 
ways, however, with an eye to 
give greater security to the in- 
sured. Besides the officers 
named in the above headlines, 
it has for directors, ten citi- 
izens of superior business quali- 
fications and underwriting ex- 
perience, viz : P. Maspero, M. 
W. Smith, D. Fatjo, B. 
W. Taylor, John B. Lallande, 
T. J. Fernandez. Paul Fourchy, 
Chas. Lafitte, D. A. Chaffraix, 
Jos. A. Shakspeare. The 
thirtieth sworn annual state- 
ment of the executive officers 
was as follows: Premiums re- 
ceived during the vear ending 
May 31, 1SS4, including un- 
earned premiums of the pre\i- 
ousyear: On Fire Risks, $255,- 
251.36; On Marine Risks, $17,- 
931.68; On Ri\er Risks, $20,305.- 
94. Total Premiums, $293,.:|SS.9S. 
Less Unearned Premiums, $71,- 
240.00. Net earned premiums, 
Aiay3i, 1S84, $222,248.98. Losses 
Paid: On Fire Risks, $105,667.- 
03; On Marine Risks, $6,553.87; 
On River Risks, $6, 104,92 ; Taxes 
and Expenses, less Interest, $15,- 
843.99; Re-Insurance and Re- 
turn Premiums, $21,137.18. 
Total, $155,306.99. Profit, $66,- 
941.013. The Company has the 
following Assets: Real Estate, 
$247,045.58; City Time, $2,- 
000.00; Bank, Railroad and 
other Stock, $63,914.79; Notes 
secured by Mortgage, etc., $162,- 
590.32; Bills Receivable, $66,- 
964,67; Premiums in course of 
Collection, $21,926.85; New 
Orleans Water Works 'Co., $7,- 
439.50; Stock of Vallette Dry 
Dock Co., $11,362.50; Louisiana 
Consols, $15,626.65,- Cash on 
hand, $46,280.58. Total, $648,- 
151.34. A ten per cent, divi- 
dend was declared for the vear 
ending May 31st 1884. This 
transcript from the books of the 
companv is an evidence of the 
exact and careful conduct of the 
affairs of the institution. The 
corporation has undergone man_)- 




The Industries of New Orleans. 159 

changes in its lifetime but has ahvajs been, as it is now, in tlie hands of first-class, clean- 
handed and honorable men. The business has been system.atized and rates reduced to 
the smallest possible margin of profit consistent with ample security. This company 
has steadfastly continued to enjoy the confidence of the property owning public. Fii-e, 
Marine and River Risks. 

H- N. BOUDET & CO. 

Wire Works and Steam Bird Cage Factory, Railings, Screens, etc.: 105 St. Charles street, between 

Poydras and Perdido streets. 

J. Hai-douin is Mr. Boudet's associate in the wire working business, at 105 St. 
Charles street. Both of these gentlemen are accomplished in their line of mechanical 
industry. Their work is tasty, neat and enduring. They have shown particular excel- 
lence in such work as Bank, Counter and Cemetery Railings, Screens for dwellings, 
Fire Guards, Fenders, and ornamented wire work generally. They get most of their 
trade from the State and city, but they have sent work elsewhere, invariably giving sat- 
isfaction. They have on hand a most complete assortment of Bird Cages, and house- 
bold articles, and the}^ are themselves as substantial in a business way as their work is 
satisfactory. 

S. BLOCH & CO. 

Commission Merchants in Cotton, Sugar and Rice: 42 Union street. 

It is now ten years since this house was first notable on 'Change. It was established 
about that length of time back, by an old resident and merchant — one who had about 
thirtv years acquaintance with the trade to recommend him to patrons — Mr. S. Bloch. 
He directed its operations until last year, then admitting to parthership with him Sam'l 
Weil, who while connected with the great house of Lehman, Abraham & Co., was 
much appreciated for steady and business-like habits and accuracy. He was their prin- 
cipal purchaser or accountant during the eight years preceding his association with Mr. 
Bloch. The combination thus effected was made under propitious circumstances, and 
the house has not been less successful than formerly. To the contrary, there has been 
a preceptible expansion of its operations and an increased patronage. The house does 
not confine itself exclusively to Cotton, although that staple makes up the bulk of its 
transactions. Sugar and Rice are also handled by it in quantity, and general produce. 
Hence the necessity of the memberships which this house maintains in the Cotton, 
Sugar and Produce Exchanges. Besides these institutions Mr. Bloch has large inter- 
ests in the planting and Insui-ance lines. He is a director of the Southern Insurance 
Company and has a large cotton plantation in this State. 

Mr. VVeil is a native Louisianian. Both these gentlemen are thus identified with 
the chief industries of this section and wrapt up in the advancement of the great re- 
sources of the State. They have therefore made a liberal donation to the Exposition 
funds, and have encouraged the project with voice and pen since its inception. 

EDWARD LILIENTHAL. 

Diamonds, Silverware, Jewelry, Bronzes and Fine Pottery: 95 Canal street. 

The second oldest Jewelry house in New Orleans is that of Edward Lilienthal. 
This fine establishment was founded in 1S47 by Julius Lilienthal. He died in 1S70 and 
the business fell into the possession of the present clever and gentlemanly proprietor. 
The specialty of this house is fine jewelry, for which there is a great local demand, and 
diamonds also, Mr. Lilienthal being regarded as an expert in the examination and judg- 
ment of gems, and much esteemed in the trade for his fine discrimination in that 
line. 

This house is agent for the renowned solid silveware of the great Gorham Manu- 
facturing Company, of Providence, Rhode Island, the largest works of the kind in - 
America, and the makei-s of the finest and most substantial metallic table wares. 

The show rooms at 95 Canal street are said to be the most tasteful arrangement 
and display of precious goods to be seen in New Orleans. Special arrangements have 
been made for the lighting and exhibit of the stock. The proprietor gives his undivided 
attention to all the transactions of the house and personally superintends the conduct of 
affairs. The employes are disciplined to their duties and are required to be polite and 
attentive under any and all cricumstances. Mr. Lilienthal has lived all his life long in 
the city, proposes to remain here and do business for the balance of his days, and is 
therefore thoroughlv in sympathy with the prevailing opinions of the community, and 
is identified Avith her material resources, property and expansion. This his numerous 
patrons understand, and so they regard him as one entitled to a high position amongst 
the most creditable of the New Orleans commercial entei-prises. 



i6o The Industries of New Orleans. 

WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINES. 

W, G. "Wilson, Agent: 197 Canal street 

This Company has been represented in New Orleans for about 30 j-ears, during^ 
which time it has been so intimately connected with e\ery interest of the commnnity 
as to demand special mention in this issue. Their office is an elegant new building, 
centrally located on the great retail throughfare. It is by far the handsomest and lar- 
gest office of this Company in the South. Perfect system pervades every department, 
and the discipline and urbanitv of all einployes is very noticeable and agreeable. This 
agencv controls sub-agencies in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, 
selling himdreds of machines monthly. Of course all this immense business could not 
flourish so long without some good reason; this we find to be in the merit of their goods. 
Thev enjoved an enviable reputation for a great many 3-ears on their cuned needle 
machine, which is still regarded as par excellence by shirt and dressmakers, etc., but 
with their new straight needle No. S machine they have assuredly attained the acme of 
perfection. This machine has received the highest awards by competent judges and 
juries possible for a sewing machine, and gives universal satisfaction. With this ma- 
chine the company has opened up a new era in sewing machine work. Without extra 
attachments, it embroiders and does in days, all kinds of fancy ornam.ental work with a 
a precision and beauty that cannot be excelled by the most adept hard worker toiling 
for months. Not only the utility of the machine renders it a necessity, but this new branch 
of artistic accomplishment makes the work an agreeable pastime for ladies with an 
aesthetic turn of mind. Elegant samples of darning, name writing, applique work, em- 
broidery and etching shown. Printed instructions to do all this work will be mailed 
customers gratis on application. Send for circular and price list to Wheeler & Wilson 
Manufacturing Company, 197 Canal street. New Orleans. 

T. ENGELBACH. 

Successor to Boericke & Tafel, Homoeopathic Pharmaceutists and Publishers: 154 Canal street. 

This thriving concern was the Southern brancfj 
of the great house of Boericke & Tafel until Mr. 
Engelbach who was the resident manager, bought the 
business. He continues the establishment in the 
same line as before, handling nothing but Boericke 
& Tafel's preparations, which are too well known the 
world over, to need further description. Their 
medicines are of acknowledged efficacy. 

The house was opened in 1S77. Mr. Engelbach 
acquired the business in March of 1SS4. The house is. 
the only one of the kind of any consequence in the South. 
Household remedies a specialty. 

JOHN H. CLARKE. 

Pliotographer: 151 Canal street. 

The claim made by Mr. John H. Clarke of 151 Canal street, that he was the first 
man to take a photograph in New Orleans, is undisputed. The records of his galleries 
run back for thirty odd years, to a time when, as compared with the wonderful develop- 
ment of the art of to-day, photography was still in its infancy. But Mr. Clarke was 
not only the first man to take a photograph on paper, he had sufficient foresight to 
establish a gallery for the development of the new process at the time, thus making his 
the oldest gallery in the South. Photos made by him in 1S54, thirty years ago, can be 
seen in his gallery, something no rival artist can show. His work outlasts all others- 
made here, because he is expert in all the details of the business, having the experience- 
and talent to accomplish anything that has been done in London, Paris or New York. 
As the proprietor of a gallerj' in Washington City many yeai^s ago, in the daguer- 
reotype business, he was in partnership with the celebrated M. A. Root, of Philadelphia 
and New York, of whom he learned the business. He has taken many portraits of the 
distinguished men of the time viz : ex-President Franklin Pierce, Thos. H. Benton, Sam 
Houston, Wm. H. Seward, Charles Sumner, Pierre Soule, Judah P. Benjamin, John 
Slidell and a host of othei-s of great celebrity. 

Using only the finest instruments, best chemicals, and having the most complete 
facilities on his premises, the cultivated and refined proprietor of this gallery does 
nothing but the very nicest work. He is particularly successful in catching the fleeting; 




The IxDusTKiES of New Orleans. 



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expression of infants. He has made copying and enlarging of old photographs and 
ancient daguerreot_vpes a specialty. He has made the matter of light and shade, dress, 
posing, accessory scenery, etc., a study. In his work the eye is always life-like. _ Oil 
painting, crayon work, pastel, water color and everything in the line of portraiture 
executed with promptness and at reasonable compensation. Courteous assistants are 
employed by him, and no tiresome waits required. Examination of his work now or& 
exhibition at the gallery solicited. 

LOUIS GRUNEWALD. 

Piano, Organ, and Music House ; Sole Agent for Steinwjiy, Knabe, Sohmer, Pleyel, Behr, Fischer, and 
other first class manufacturers : i6 to 22 Baronne and 127 Canal street. 

From the various enterprises in. 
which the proprietor of GrunewaU 
Hall is interested, his naijie is a 
familiar one throughout the South. 
He operates two fine music stores in 
New Orleans, besides owning the- 
opera house which bears his name, 
has a large establishment in Hous- 
ton, Texas, is the heaviest shipper of 
musical goods, to Mexico and Central! 
America from this port, and is in< 
many other ways conspicuous as a; 
representative man. It is thirty years; 
since he began to operate upon his 
own account, with but little beyond" 
his own resolution and detei-mination' 
to commend him and his wares to- 
public favor. These qualities were- 
sutficient for a beginning however, 
economical, prudential and sagacious, 
conduct having since secured him a substantial station among the prominent business- 
men of the time. The Canal street store is very large. It includes the four floors 35 x; 
125, the sti-eet floor being devoted exclusively to the show rooms for pianos and large- 
instruments, the others containing surplus and small musical sundries, and general' 
merchandise. The Baronne street establishment is even more spacious. It occupies 
four stores and is four stories high. The Houston branch house at No. 50 Main street 
in that city, carries a stock as great as does the Canal street division. 

Mr. Grunewald's proprietorship of the Grunewald opera house has already been 
referred to. This is one of the popular places of amusement, and is a sample of the 
breadth and enlarged ideas of its owner. Mr. Grunewald is the sole agent for Louis- 
iana of the Sohmer, Knabe, Steinway, Fisher and Behr Pianos, all first class instru- 
ments. He has the general Southern agency of the Pleyel piano, the favorite French 
instrument, manufactured in Paris*. He has the exclusive right of sale in this vicinity, 
of the Clough & Warren, and of the Schoninger organs. Mr. Grunewald has lived!' 
more than thirty years in the community, and given the greater portion of that time- 
to the direction of his interests in the piano and music trade. He is considered to be 
in opulent circumstances, and is a citizen of character, importance and vigor. 

SEPTOLINE AND SAFETY OIL COMPANY, 

T. Sewell Manager; Oil Stoves, Oils, Lamps, etc. : ij Dauphine street. 

Mr. T. Sewell, who is at the head of this establishment, is a pioneer in the busi- 
ness, having first started in the year 1864, since which date he has almost had a monop- 
oly of the Trade in oil stoves, etc. The company which he represents manufactures at 
Cleveland, Ohio, the celebrated Septoline oil which is a light and brilliant fluid made 
from the lighter parts of petroleum. The safety oil made also by it, is 150 fire test and] 
is the best illuminating oil known. 

Mr. Sewell has the agency for the Economist and Summer Queen oil stoves, the- 
Peerless steam cooker, and the Aurora vapor stoves with tl^e accessories to these 
household necessities. The vapor stoves burn gasoline. 

The full line of chandeliers, lamps, etc.\ is also kept at 15 Dauphine street, 
together with oil tanks for stove utensils, and all the outfit required. Mr. Sewell has; 
the endorsement of the Board of Health and of the city authorities of New Orleans, for- 
his oils, thus assuring the public that they are absolutely safe. 



«62 The Ixdustkies of New Oi: leans. 



H. D, McCOWN. 

Clothing, Shirts, Furnishing Goods, Hats, etc.: Corner of St. Charles and Common street-. 

At the corner of St. Charles and Common streets mav be found one of the largest 
rclothing and furnishing houses of the South — that establisht d in 1S56 bv R. E.Sproule, 
•vvho was succeeded some years later by its present energetic proprietor. This house, 
•started upon a small scale, has gradually increased its custom imtil now it occupies 
three stores in the four story building diagonally opposite to the St. Charles Hotel. 
At present the house finds it necessary to employ a staff of over iwentv men for the 
successful prosecution of its various departments. These are the men's clothing, the 
children and youth's department, the tailoring, furnishing goods, and shipping depart- 
ments. The premises actually in use are 70 feet front and have a depth of 150 feet 
■on Common street. The cutter and fitter of this house has more than a local reputa- 
tion. His suits are much sought alter, the most fastidious dressers declaring him an 
expert. Orders from abroad receive as much attention from him as any others, a mas- 
tery of the artistic and scientific principles of his tr.ide making him exceptionally 
•clever at it. 

This house has the sole right of sale of the famous Star Shirts manufactured bv 
Hutchinson, Pierce & Co., and is also the only dealer that can handle Rogers, Peet 
-& Co's. celebrated clothing. Other leading manufacturers supply it with a stock of 
ready made garments of all grades, and specially selected for this climate. Mr. 
McCown personally superintends the manufacture of these goods and he therefore can 
•^guarantee them to be just as represented. The establi>hment has just been thoroughly 
■overhauled to make room for the fine spring stock selected by the proprietor while he 
■was in the North. 

AUZE & SON. 

Cotton Brokers: 42 Perdido street, up stairs. 

Theodore Auze, senior member of the firm which i> herein described, has been so 
many years domiciled in New Orleans that a personal description of him seems alto- 
:gether unnecessary. Sydney Auze, his son, is hardly less conspicuous on 'Change. 
Both gentlemen are members of the Cotton E.xchange, and having a patronage extend- 
ing back to 1S64, and well tliroughout this vicinity, are busy and acti\'e operators in 
cotton. Their trade is mostlv local, but they often have interests in mo\ements 
of the staple in the adjacent States. They are regarded as thoroughly posted and 
clever brokers, particular to a fault, vigilant guardians of the interests confided to 
them, upright and square. This is high commendation, but not more than their 
unblemished record displays to the recorder of business annals. A thorough mas- 
tery of the speculati\e features of their business enables them the better to protect their 
•clients' interests and their own Thus they have maintained an honorable and influen- 
tial position among their fellows. 

Following the example of their fellow members of the Cotton Exchange, this house 
lias encouraged the Exposition project to the full extent of its ability. It has con- 
tributed to the funds and has exerted itself to interest all of its connections in the great 
■scheme. Although middlemen only, the Auzes have influence with producers great 
and small, and the display in the cotton department has been privately assisted by 
them, because of the pride thev take in the communitv to which thev are attached, 
■without expectation of reward. 

LOUISIANA CISTERN MANUFACTORY. 

J. Hussey, Proprietor: 2(^ Canal street. 

The proprietor of these works is truly a self made man. He has made his own 
■way in the world since his fifth year, having been left an orphan at that early age. 
"With pluck and independence characteristic of his nationality, he has made his way 
from the situation of the poor apprentice boy to be the proprietor of the largest steam 
■cistern works in Louisiana, and apparently the most prosperous one. He supplies both 
•city and country. The works were started by him in 185S. They cover a quarter of 
the square, but their office is at the corner of Canal and Marais streets. They employ 
twenty-five hands. All kinds of cisterns and tanks are made and repaired at short no- 
tice. A large assortment of new and second hand cisterns is kept constantly on hand. 
Country orders are promptly attended to and cisterns shipped whole or knocked dovvn, 
packed and numbered. Further inquiries should be addressed to the Louisiana Cistern 
Manufactory, 265 Canal street, J. Hussey, Proprietor. 

Price lists showing the prices of the cisterns manufactured at these works (subject, 
ihowever, to rise and fall with the times and niarket) furnished on application. 



The Industries of Neav Orleans. 163 

M. PFEIFER & SON. 

■General Ccmmission Merc hanU for the Sale of Pork, Bacon, Lard, H ams, Flcur, Ccrn Meal and Grain 

86 Poydrai street. 

The four-stor}' store at 86 Pojdras street is occupied bj the prcminent house of 
M. Pfeifer & Son, the senior partner, Mr. M. Pfeifer, being identified with the com- 
•mercial interests ot the city since 1S66, prior to which time he had established himself 
in the same line successfully in Mississippi. The junior partner, Mr. S. Pfeifer, has a 
brilliant future before him if his capacity and energy are rewarded with successful 
results. This house carries on a general produce business, dealing only in first-quality 
Western products — pork, bacon, lard, hams, flour, meal and grain. Its trade is mainly 
"with the city and with the country parishes. Its proprietors are a firm of painstaking 
caterers to the public wants in its line, and as such are heartily appreciated by its 
numerous patrons. 

PAUL BOISSONNEAU. 

Merchant Tailor: 137 Canal street, second floor. 

There are no meretricious splendors of shop window and gorgeous sign-post to 
attract the patronage of the multitude to the tailoring establishment of Paul Bois- 
sonneau. His reputation is sufficiently grounded, in the estimation of his patronage, 
to enable him to dispense with such assistance. Mr. Boissonneau's business is perhaps 
the oldest and best esteemed of any strictly tailoring house in the city. It certainly 
has the highest reputation for style, fine goods and general excellence. It has had con- 
tinuous transactions reaching over thirty-one years, and its artistic, as well as financial 
credit, is pretty fairly established. The goods and stock of this house are displayed 
on the second floor of number 137 Canal sti^eet. Nearly all its goods are imported 
directly from the first European manufacturers. Its trade is all for fine work, for which 
only imported stuffs are desired. What domestic fabrics are demanded come direct 
from first hands. Special selections are made of the most stylish patterns. The Lon- 
don and Paris fashion-plates are forwarded to the house at the same time with their 
publication in these great centers. Mr. Boissonneau is himself a tailor, proud of his 
vocation, expert in his art, cultivated in the best schools of the trade, and is a courteous 
gentleman. It is notorious that foreign goods, owing to the direct communication by 
sea with France and England from this port, can be sold at less rates than in the 
northern cities. Hence one advantage enjoyed by this house. For skill in the cutting 
and fitting of garments from these fine cloths, the establishment which is the subject 
•of this sketch has no superior either here or elsewhere. 

EUGENE MAY. 

Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Fancy Toilet Articles, Soaps, Perfumer}', etc.: Corner of Canal and 

Chartres streets. 

Although of comparatively recent establishment, this fine pharmacy is one of the 
Tnost prominent of the important Canal street houses. The genial and clever propri- 
etor has a wide circle of business acquaintance, the outward limit of which is not within 
the State borders. He has been alwaj's domiciled in New Orleans, although as sales- 
man for the great drug hovises of Wheelock, Finlay & Co., and T. W. Marsden, their 
affairs frequently called him out of town. A graduate in pharmacy of the University 
of Louisiana, with twenty years' experience of his profession and acquaintance therein 
"to commend hiin, he readily acquired a fine and profitable patronage after his venture 
"was fairly under way. The place is now one of the best business stands in the city, 
and under the watchful management of Mr. May it is rapidly progressing in importance 
amongst the other representative houses of the city. It is the only drug store that 
keeps its doors open all night. It has the largest and finest silver soda and mineral 
water fountain in the United States, as may be demonstrated at a glance. It was made 
•expressly for the house. Every known mineral water is always kept on hand, and the 
-selection of fancy goods is varied and attractive. 

Mr. May is sole agent here for the Lithia water. His assistants include the most 
■competent and reliable prescription clerks. Extraordinary care is exercised in this de- 
partment to assure accuracy and safety. Only unadulterated drugs are used. Propri- 
-etary medicines are warranted genuine. None but those approved by popular patronage 
•-are dispensed. Country orders receive the promptest attention and the most careful 
•super\'ision. This house deserves the ample confidence and favor that has been be- 
•stowed upon it by the purchasing public. It is a high-toned and strictly first-class 
'establishment in all essential particulars. 



164 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



CARROLTON OIL COMPANY, 

Manutacturers of Cotton Seed Products; F. Streubv, Prest : Jno. C. Schwartz Secy: Works corner 
of Adams and Levee streets ; City Office, iz Union street. 

This mill and company began operations in the year iSSi. It has shared in the 
general prosperity of the trade in seed products since, and is now making a heavy out- 
put of oil, meal, cake and fertilizers. 

The directors of this company are a guarantee 01 its standing in the business com- 
munity. Mr. Streubv the manager, is a resident of New Orleans since 1S69, all of 
which time he has put in at the oil trade. 

He built and managed the Planters Crescent Company's works for a time, and 
superintended the construction of the mill of which he now has charge. Mr. F. Fisher^ 
another director, is of the firm of Fisher & Son (The Picayune Lumber Yard and Saw 
Mills). Henry Lochte, a third director, is one of the firm'of H. Lochte & Co., whole- 
sale grocers of the city. Chris. Schwartz, is a Natchez cotton planter. Wm. P. 
Richardson is a merchant and planter and is the son of Col. E. Richardson, the greatest 
of the New Orleans Cotton Factors. 

This mill employs sixty men. Its principal shipments are for export, the European) 
ports furnishing it with a sufficient market. Its specialty is cotton seed oil, for the 
quality of which it has a well deserved reputation. 

THE TROY LAUNDRY. 

F. C. Rice and J. E. Pierce; Steamboat, Hotel and Restaurant Work a specialty: SS and 90, Nortb 

Rampart street. 

Rice and Pierce's Troy Laundry of New Orleans, is a branch of the celebrated 
Troy Laundry of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was established about two years ago in 
New Orleans. The main institution is located at SS and 90 North Rampart street, and 
here 50 men and women are employed. It is the largest and most complete establish- 
ment of the kind in the South. Mr. Pierce manages the affairs here, whilst Mr. Rice? 
attends to the Milwaukee establishment. 

This concern has a patronage that reaches into Alabama and Mississippi as well a& 
throughout the State. For the convenience of its local patrons, it has an office at No> 
9 St. Charles street. It was the first laundry on an extended scale ever started here, 
and has turned out a most satisfactory investment for its energetic proprietors. It 
should not be confounded with the Louisiana Troy Laundry, which is another and a 
separate concern. 

THE DONAHOE MATTRESS MANUFACTURING COMPANY^ 

Patent Cord -Bound Mattresses, Ticks, Tickings, etc.: 44 and 46 Baronne street. 

Two most useful inventions stand to the credit of the gentleman who presides over 
the institution whose name heads these paragraphs, Mr. J. J. Donahoe. These inven- 
tions are, the Donahoe Cord-Bound Mattress and Donahoe and Finn's Iron Shutter 
opener, the latter designed to facilitate the operations of the Fire Department. 

Mr. Donahoe is manager of the mattress company. He has been twenty years in 
business here. The Cord-Bound mattress has been in use on steamboats, in hotels 
and elsewhere since 1S75, and it has given universal satisfaction. It never rips, has no 
resting places for vermin, and is fadeless, when washed. Mattresses of moss, hair, Palmi 
Leaf, Excelsior, Feathens, etc., made to order and repaired. Tickings of all grades at 
lowest rates. 

The advantages of Donahoe & Finn's iron shutter opener over others are: ist. It 
is more simple, durable and reliable, for it cannot get out of order, when properly con- 
structed and it will not cost o//e fourth as much as other shutter openers. 2nd. This 
device can be applied to buildings without making any changes in the method the 
shutters are now fastened. 3rd. With this device, a building can be made fire and 
burglar proof, for it will throw open an iron shutter an inch thick, as well as those of 
sheet iron now used. 4th. It is not complicated, and can be applied to any building- 
by an ordinary mechanic. 5th. It will pay for itself in a short time by the saving of 
time and labor now spent daily in going up-stairs to open shutters. 

The Council of the City of New Orleans, and the Underwriters' Association of the 
same place, have endorsed this invention as practical and economical. Messrs. Donahoe- 
and P. J. Finn his partner, are prepared to recei\'e propositions for the sale of the- 
patent or of rights, and to give due consideration to other arrangements that may be 
proposed. The inducements offered for speculation and investment will be explainedJ 
by the firm at 44 and 46 Baronne street. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 165 

NAVRA'S CHINA PALACE. 

Wholesale and Retail Crcckery, Imported Wares, etc.: M, L. Navra, Proprietor: 167 Canal street, 

near Dauphine. 

The claim that this is the largest and cheapest crockeiy store in the South, seems 
to be well founded. Undoubtedly if all its transactions were taken into account, it 
would be discovered to be well worthy representation in this work as one of the foi-e- 
most houses in New Orleans. It was started about thirty years ago by Levi Si Navra, 
the latter member of the original firm being the present master of the whole business. 

The chief trade of the house is in fine parlor statuai-y, glass-wai-e, crockery and 
tableware. These lines include such articles as fine bronzes, vases and stands, brass 
(fire-tongs and coal hods, procelain and plated ware and the thousand household neces- 
sities. Some of the cut crystal goods now displayed at this establishment are veiy 
iine, and said to excel anything in that line yet manufactured. Porcelain ornamen- 
tation is done in the establishment. 

The stock carried is complete as well as diversified. The two floors occupied are 
packed closely with the recent importations frdm abroad. The ground floor is 30 x 125 
feet in extent, and the upper story equally capacious. This is a house which sells genu- 
ine goods only. It has never been known to misrepresent things, and is above petty 
schemes of all sorts. It ite a safe place to trade with and is so endorsed by an extended 
run of custom. 

JOSEPH COHN. 

Manufacturer and Jobber of Clothing and Gents' Furnishing^ Goods : 26 Magazine street: In New York, 

466 and 468 Broadway. 

Cohn's wholesale clothing house of No. 26 Magazine street, has been established 
in New Orleans sincp the Centennial year. During the eight years meanwhile, the 
character and comparative cheapness of its goods has been manifested in this market 
and they have met with great favor thi-oughout all of the South with which New Or- 
leans has transportation connections. These goods are specially manufactured to suit 
this climate and are patterned after the latest fashions in New York, London and Paris. 
The business connections of this house enable it to command every change in the mar- 
ket, either here or in New York City, and it has been its custom to share this advan- 
tage with its patrons by selling at the low prices thus made profitable for it. By adopt- 
ing a liberal and far sighted policy, Mr. Cohn has acquired an enviable reputation in 
the trade, and a first-class run of custom. 

C. C. HARTWELL. 

Plumbing and Gas Materials, Steam Fitting-, etc.: 4S Baronne street, between Common and Gravier. 

This house is twenty-seven years old, and has done business longer, without inter- 
ruption, than any house of the sort in New Orleans. Its proprietor, the gentleman 
whose name heads this account, is one of the oldest citizens of this community. Him- 
self a thorough artisan, the work in the plumbing and gas fitting line done by his men 
may be relied upon as all that skill and experience can accomplish. In addition to his 
mechanical operations, Mr. HsJIrtwell is a general dealer and importer of plumbers' 
materials, and he has always on hand a general assortment, including lead, iron, water 
and gas pipe, brass and plated cocks, chandeliers, brackets and portable stands, force 
and lift pumps, hall lights, store pendants, shades, globes, etc.; hot, cold and shower 
bathing apparatus ; water-closets, wash-stands, sinks and hydrants, and their fittings. 

All jobbing work ordered at this establishment will be promptly and properly 
attended to. New work done at short notice and reasonably. Estimates furnished and 
contracts entered into. 

THE MlNER^S OIL COMPANY OF N Y. 

J. D.-Tilden, Manager, New Orleans Agency : 117 Tchoupitoulas street 

This company manufactures in New York and ships its products to this point (New 
Orleans) for distribution over the South and Southwest. It has a first class reputation 
all throughout this section both with respect to the quality of its lubricants and as to its 
methods of doing business. Its agent at New Orleans, Mr. J. D. Tilden, is a gentleman 
well woi-thy the consideration shown him by the business community, which always 
welcomes an energetic addition to its ranks. The company manufactures all sorts of 
oils, but makes a specialty here of the sale of machine-oils, which are commended by 
those using them as the best and cheapest they have found. Price lists furnished upon 
application at 117 Tchoupitoulas street. 



i66 The Ixdustiiies of Nkw Okleaxs. 

JOS. KANTZ. 

Wholes:ilcr and Im lortcr ci Havana and Domestic Cigars, Pipes, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, etc.: 
53 Gravier street, between Tchoupitoulas and S, Peters streets. 

Ani3ngst the foremost of the tobacco dealing houses of New Orleans, that of Jos.. 
Kantz holds an enviable position. Its capital, credit and prospects are equally satis- 
factory. The house formerly known as that of Jos. Kantz & Co. was opened in 1880, 
the four years since having been exceptionally prosperous. The Louisiana parishes are 
the field "tor the main business of the house, but its manufactures find their way also in 
more remote markets. Conspicuously good beyond other local manufactures, the pro- 
ductions of this house have only to be introduced to command a ready sale. Take, for 
instance, the Crescent City Smoking Tobacco, one of the specialties of this house, 
greatly preferred in the interior, and the Southern Rose Fine-cut (medium grade). 
Tne house also stands ready to furnish to dealers, on demand, anything in the lines 
mentioned at the opening of this article, pipes, cigars, domestic or imported smokers* 
conveniences, cigarette paper, and all the minutia; of a tobacco establishment. 

Mr. Kantz is a live, active and thrifty merchant. He knows his business, has good 
trade connections and ample resources, and may be set down in the record as a man. 
who is looked up to, 

H. L. NORES. 

Fancy and Staple Dry Goo Js, Ribbon:?, Embroideries, Laces, Hosiery, Glaves, etc. : 205 Canal street 
betweeu Rampart and Burgundy. 

One of the neatest and liveliest of the Canal street stores, is that which displays the 
name at the beginning of this article as its proprietor's. This gentleman, thoroughly- 
well known and remarkably well posted, is no novice in the Dry Goods trade. He has 
been in that line all his life, although the establishment he now has, was opened only- 
three years since. Abundantly roomy, and tastefully arranged, the 35x120 feet of space 
occupied present to the interested eye a bustling spectacle that suggests a prosperous 
and expanding trade. The specialties of the house are indicated in these headlines. 
One of Mr. Nores' business principles is to satisfy his customers by carrying complete 
assortments or none at all, thus saving patrons many annoyances. Polite and attentive 
assistants are employed in this establishment, and personal supervision is exercised by 
the painstaking and astute proprietor himself. 

This house has many country customers who rely upon its representations, and are 
faithfully accommodated as per order in all cases. Mr. Nores does a clean, straight and. 
profitabfe trade and is well liked by all. 

H. E. HEZEKIAH. 

Electric, Vapor, and Medicated Baths: 260 St. Charles, corner of Delord. 

It was welcome news to the suffering and afilicted of this vicinity when, in March- 
last, it was publicly announced that Dr. O. H. Harlan's hypodermic, medicated, vapor 
bath system would be introduced in this section. At that time, H. E. Hezekiah, Gen- 
eral Southern Manager arrived, and opened an establishment at the number and street 
above mentioned. Mr. Hezekiah then published the fact that he had provided for 
electric baths in connection with those of vapor, and was prepared to treat electropath- 
ically, diseases of the eye and ear, of the respiratory system, of the brain and nervous 
s\^stem, of the digestive organs, and in fact, all other ailments. The baths are partic- 
ularly effective in cutaneous or skin diseases, and in affections of the Urinary or Gen- 
ital system. Certain and positive cures and complete restoration to health, has been 
effected in the following diseases by means of Dr. Harlan's baths: Paralysis, Rheuma- 
tism, Gout, Dropsy, Spine and Kidney affections. Neuralgia and Erysipelas, Dyspep- 
sia, Diabetes and Nervous Debility, and all chronic complaints. 

Female treatment is a specialty of the establishment, arrangements having been 
completed so that female patients may be treated by expert lady attendants. Patients, 
unable to reach the baths can be waited upon at their homes. 

The founding of such an institution in New Orleans, the only one in the South, is- 
a public benefaction. So great an advance has not been made in the healing art, for 
many years, as has been illustrated in the application of Dr. Harlan's discoveries. Mr.. 
Hezekiah, the manager of the baths, is thoroughly up in the great physician's methods, 
and has provided the public with the most elegant and satisfactory accommodations. 
An enterprise of so much merit should not be allowed to fail, and it is gratifying to- 
note that success has attended it thus far. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



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SOULE'S BUSINESS COLLEGE. 

Col. George Soule, President: corner St. Charles ;tnd L.afayette s reets. 

The foundation of this most successful 
educational institution was laid in a modest 
vvaj by its distinguished president so far- 
back as 1S56, and in 1S61 a complete estab- 
lishment was effected by charter. During a 
quarter of a century or more of continuous 
development, its system has been perfected 
and its facilities enlarged, until it has at- 
tained deserved celebrity as the most thor- 
ough and satisfactory college in the State of 
Louisiana, and as a fair rival of more pre- 
tentious establishments elsewhere. More 
pl than 6000 young men have been instructedi 
since 1856, prepared to go out into the world 
and begin the struggle of life. This was- 
the first institution in Louisiana that gave 
its pupils a training for actual business af- 
fairs. Under the management of CoL 
Soule, whose experience, varied accom.— 
plishments and proficiency in business methods make him notable as an iustructor, 
the students and graduates of the Commercial College and Literary Institute, have 
been better fitted to grapple with the actual condition of things, than under any other- 
system. The practical as well as theoretical aspect of mercantile affairs, is presented 
to their view. At the same time the polish and finish of a literary course may also be- 
acquired in the institution. The college buildings are located in one of the most 
healthful spots in the city. They have accommodations for 350 scholars. Five separate 
schools are conducted on the elective system, viz: 

1. An Intermediate School for boys 10 to 14 years of age. 2. A Higher English 
School for boys 14 to 18 years. 3. An Academical School of a high grade, with a com- 
plete Laboratorj'. 4. A full course Commercial School. 5. A Language School. 

The Faculty includes thirteen of the most profound and clever professors that 
could be enlisted in the service of onq institution. The institution is strictly non-sect- 
arian. Special attention is given to the development of the student's native capacity, 
and to the direction of his disposition and traits in the proper channel. Discipline is 
enforced. Health and morals are attended to. That peculiarly modern folly, "cram- 
i-ning" is not a distinguishing feature of this institution. The opportunities for out- 
door exercise, and in-duor amusements are excellent. A fine gymnasiism is attached to 
the premises. 

The diplomas of the Commercial Course are recognized everywhere throughout 
this vicinity, as conclusive e\-idence of proficiency, and are accepted as the best possi- 
ble recommendations for j'oung men desiring positions in the commercial world. The 
iustruction in book-keeping is given in all the varied forms of that science, Commis- 
sion, Wholesale and Retail, Banking, Manufacturing, etc., and is illustrated pr?.ctical- 
ly by work performed by the stufient. 

Col. Soule is a master of all the details of his art. He has also a reputation out- 
side of his business as a writer. As the author of a mathematical series of school! 
books, and of a work on the science of accounting, he has much more than a local 
celebrity. By these books and by his graduates, who are resident in every part of the; 
Continent, from Canada to Mexico, he has acquired a well-earned reputation for 
scholarship and executive ability. His terms, considering the remarkable advantages- 
offered at the school, are moderate and reasonable. Books, board, lodging, etc., are 
provided if desired. Circulars explaining the managemeut, course of study, and o+her 
matters are furnished upon application. 

JOHN WARD. 

Steam Boiler Manufacturer: 260 to 270 South Peters : 29 and 31 Calliope Etrtet. 

This is a manufactory of the first ©rder, both in point of its annual output and of 
complete preparation for any mechanical operations in its line. It has been twenty- 
eight years in operation, all that time under the direction of the gentleman named 
above. It is the largest and best equipped boiler shop in New Orleans. The works- 
cover a half block. Eighty hands are employed. The trade is largely local, that is,, 
mostly confined to the State of Louisiana, but orders are taken from abroad also. The- 



i6S The Ixdustries of New Orleans. 

outfit of the establishment includes a ri\etting machine, the tirst of the kind put to use 
in the South. The combined punch and shears operated in the works is an immense 
apparatus. Six drill presses are run constantly. It requires 150 feet of shafting to op- 
erate this machinery. The specialt^' of these works is a Hew and improved boiler, that 
the works are the sole constructor of. It has a manhole top and bottom, is easy of access 
for cleaning piu^poses, has seventeen feet six inch flues, can be repaired by any one, 
.and has given entire satisfaction wherever it is adopted. Parties interested would do 
well to call at the works and examine it. Repairs at reasonable rates. Work con- 
tracted tor and estimates furnished. Jobs invariably finished on time and as agreed. 

These few facts concerning Mr. Ward's establishment are sufficient to illustrate 
the benefits derived from it by the industrial comirfunity. The annual addition made 
by it to the business and transactions of the city of New Orleans is no inconsiderable 
portion of the whole. The concern is as sound financially as it is complete me- 
chanically. 

G. W. ROPER. 

Gents' Furnishing Goods: iiS Canal street, Crescent Baildings. 

A residence of over forty years, and experience in banking, insurance, and mercantile 
affairs generally, as well as prominence otherwise, certainly entitles this gentleman to re- 
presentation in this work. Mr. Roper was born in New York City, opposite to where 
the City Hall stands, but he came to the Crescent City a child of tender years — not yet 
in his 'teens. He was raised here, and as all that he has is here, he accounts himself so 
ihorou'^hly identified with the place as to know no other. 

Mr. Roper has an excellent trade, mostly local in its character. His establishment 
is one that deals only in first quality goods. Its principal transactions are in the 
Glenn Falls, New York, Shirts, and in the line of imderwear of all grades. The accom- 
modating' and clever manners of the people of this establishment, combined with the 
hi"-h quality of its merchandise, make it one of the most satisfactory as well as popular 
places of the sort to patronize. 

WM. DILLON. 

Deader in Bagging, Rope, Gunny Bags, Twine and Iron Ties: 107 Foydras street. 

This gentleman, for whom twenty-five years record is the best and most conclusive 
commendation that could be presented in print, makes a specialty of supplying the city 
trade with baling, bagging, etc., although he does not refuse country orders also. 

Mr. Wm. Dillon, is generally credited by the trade with having had exceptional 
prosperity, due, it may be remarked, as much to persevering effort as to intelligent 
discernment of the tendencies of the market. Having strong capital, and plenty of re- 
source as well as livelv and engaging manners, he has a run of custom which is en- 
tirely his own, and tor which he is obliged to keep a good supply of baling stuff. These 
patrons consider his prices the most reasonable in the city, and his prompt ^vay of do- 
ino- business, the most satisfactory. He is off-handed, bluff and hearty, and has all 
the qualities of a sterling merchant. 

ANDRIEU BROS. 

Manufacturer of Hand Sew .-U and Screwed Boots Boots and Shoes: Offic and Salesroom, 37 Bienville 

street. 

Amono- the local displays at the Exposition that of the Andrieu Bros, has been 
much admtred. The material and finish of the boots and shoes that they exhibit, the 
style and general merits of their showing, strikes all beholders. These gentlemen haye 
served the public in the capacity of manufacturers since 1879, but long prior to the 
foundation of their house they had been experienced in their line — in fact were engag- 
ed in it some twenty-five years. 

The Andrieu Bros, (F. A. and G. A.) haye a trade reaching well over the South. 
Havino- a thorough knowledge of the styles and stock most suitable to this section, 
elaborate facilities and ample backing, they have been able to compete easily with 
northern manufacturers and better to satisfy the demands of this market. De'alings 
with them are always more satisfactory for these reasons than with the agents for im- 
portations. Their"manufactory is one of the largest in this part of the country. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 169 



THE MUTUAL NATIONAL BANK. 

JohnT. Hardie, President; Joseph Mitchel, Cashier: 106 Canal street. 

The Mutual National Bank, one of the sound and stable depositories of an emi- 
ently safe and conservative banking community, was established in 1871. Its capital 
s $300,000, its surplus $So,ooo. The directors are : 

Lloyd R. Coleman, also President of the Mechanics' and Traders' Insurance Com- 
)an3': Paul Fourchy, President of the Merchants' Mutual Ins. Co. John T. Hardie, 
if JohnT. Hardie'& Co., Cotton Factors. J.A.Shakespeare, ex-Mayor, and of the 
(hakespeare Foundry. B. W. Taylor, of John Henry & Co., wholesale boots and 
hoes. G. W. Sentell, of G. W. Sentell & Co., Cotton Factors. J. B, Woods, agent 
t. Louis and New Orleans Anchor Line Steamers. I. L. Lyons, Wholesale Druggist. 
The following exhibit, highly assuring to all of this bank's patrons, has been pub- 
lished as the statement of the condition of the Mutual bank at the close of business, 
bee. 20th, 1SS4. 

I RESOURCES. 

Loans and discounts $712,966 82 

Werdrafts 10,570 24 

I . S . bonds to secure circulation 50,000 00 

?ther stocks, bonds and mortgages ' 80,350 57 

*pue from national banks 3)^73 ^2 

>ue from State banks and bankers 34j58i ^5 

Leal estate, furniture and fixtures ., ^7)769 49 

Current expenses and taxes paid • • • 10,381 66 

checks and other cash items 28 OQ 

exchanges for Clearing-House. . . .' $107,505 85 

^ills of other banks 8,000 00 

iractional currency (including nickels) i>27o 06 
pecie 95650 00 
regal tender notes 106,000 00 



~ 232,425 Ql 

redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per cent, of circvilation) 2,250 00 

j Total $1,155,197 46 

I LIABILITIES.. 

Capital stock paid in $300,000 00 

jurplus fund 80,000 00 

Jndivided profits. 31,946 64 

■National bank notes outstanding 45,000 00 

Dividends unpaid 252 00 

ndividual deposits, subject to check $557,053 09 

Demand certificates of deposit i,755 00 

certified checks. 6,576 74 



565,384 83 

Cashier's checks outstanding , 39, 990 00 

Due to other national banks 60,498 75 

Due to State banks and bankers 32,525 24 

Total $1,155,197 46 

The Mutual Bank receives deposits, negotiates loans, discounts commercial paper, 
makes collections, deals in exchange, and transacts generally all kinds of legitimate 
banking. The confidence of the public in this institution is practically illustrated by 
the heavy deposits made with it (to be seen in the statement above), and by the num- 
ber of its accommodations to businessmen, shown by the extent of its loans and dis- 
counts. 

THE PICAYUNE SAW MILLS. 

F. Fischer & Sons, Proprietors: Carrollton, Seventh District of New Orleans. 

The Picayune Saw Mills and Lumber Yard at Carrollton carries the largest stock of 
lumber of any concern in New Orleans. The establishment, founded in 1865, 
covers three squares of ground. Mr. F. Fischer, the senior member of the firm, has 



I70 The Industries of New Orleans. 



lived in Xonv Orleans or its \icinity for fortj-five years and has been in the timber 
business on the Mississippi River for forty years of that time. His sons and associates, 
Cooney B. and Thco. J. Fischer, were born in this city and were broiight up to the 
business. Tliis mill makes a specialty of cypress kimber, shingles and laths, timber 
being brought from lands owned by the firm in Louisiana and Mississippi. Mr. Fischer, 
Sr., is a director of the Teutonia Insurance Company and of the Carrollton Oil Works. 
Both he and his sons are prominent in the'Mechanics', Dealers' and Lumbermen's Ex-| 
change. Orders solicited. Office, corner Carrollton avenue and Levee. Telephone 
No. 407, Seventh District. 

From the foregoing account of this concern it will be readily seen that Fischer &| 
Sons have ample capital, credit and resources with which to compete for city or coun- 
try trade. A long and honorable career under the management of the elder Fischer is 
surety for all transactions with the house, which will be discovered to be one of the 
most accommodating and satisfactory in its line to have dealings with, in all thisi 
section. As a thoroughly representative house it is accorded a prominent place in thifij 
volume, corresponding to that which it holds in the estimation of the business com-l 
munity, and more particularly of the building trade, whose patronage is the best proof, 
of its standing and popularity. From 75 to 100 hands are constantly employed in the 
various departments of the business. The annual transactions amount to over 6,000,-' 
cxx) feet of lumber. , 

T. FITZWILLIAM «&, CO. 

Manufacturing Stationers, Printers and Lithographers: 62 Camp and 15 Bank Place. I 

The establishment that has for long years borne the reputation of turning out che 
best work of any in New Orleans, in its special lines (those above named) is that which 
is given this space. Started in i860, by T. Fitzwilliam, it has had a steady progress] 
since, and is now firmly established as the most complete concern of the sort in thej 
South. In 1S75, Mr. J. H. Kirkwood acquired an interest. Both he and Mr. Fitz- 
william have had an evtended residence and business experience, something more than, 
thirty years each. Mr. Kirkwood was formerly one of the firm of S. M. Todd & Co., 
the largest established paint and oil house in the vicinity. Mr. Fitzwilliam has made 
the printing and lithographing line the avocation of his life, but has been also con-| 
spicuous in other business ventures. He was a director of the Hibernia bank, and also} 
of the Hibernia Ins. Co. at one time, and has large property interests here. It willj 
thus be seen that the concern is a strong one, but other circumstances also prove thisj 
fact. It employs some fifty men in the four story premises occupied by it on Camp 
street, and supplies the greater part of the South therefrom. The various floors are! 
used for the stationery salesroom, lithographing (the artistic specialty of the house), 
the binderv, and job-printing office. The work done is mostly of the highest charac- 
ter, such as the lithographed printing of bonds, certificates of stock. Bills of Exchange, 
drafts, etc.; also of fine colored labels, show cards, posters and invitations. HavingI 
special arrangement and facilities for doing this work, the house has almost a monop-\ 
oly of all this business. This house is most worthy of classification with the repre-( 
sentative houses of the city. | 

THE MARIPOSA RICE MILLS. 

Stewart & Ricktrt: 61 to 67 St. Joseph street, 

Mr. C. H. Stewart, of the Mariposa Rice Mills, is well known as formerly in the 
wholesale hardware and planting businesses, before entering into partnership with F. 
Rickert, Jr., in the milling trade. Mr. Rickert is also in the rice and sugar (shipping) 
line, aside from his interest in the mill, but Mr. Stewart gives his undivided attention 
to the affairs of the Mariposa concern. Both gentlemen are life-long residents of this 
section, and are experienced in those branches of trade with which they are identified. 
The mill covers half a block of ground at the situation maintained above. Its twenty 
or more employes and improved facilities, are equal to an out-put of 100 barrels of clear 
rice per day of twelve hours. This mill supplies the city wholesalers exclusively. Since 
its foundation in 1881 it has had more than its fair share of the patronage to which it 
caters. 

Mr. Rickert ships sugar, rice, etc., to the North and Northwest, his principal trans- 
actions being in brewers' rice. P. O. address of the mill, Box 262. Telephone at the 
mill. 



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171 



MANION & CO, 

Plumbers, Steam and Gas Fitters: Dealers in Pipe and Plumbers' Materials: 167 Baronne street. 
Manion & Co., established in tlie Plumbing line at No. 167 Baronne street, are do- 
ing business as the successors to Allen Hill, by whom the house was conducted for nearly 
forty vears. Manion & Co. has been the firm name and designation since 1877 or '78. 
This is the oldest house in the plumbing and supply trade in New Orleans. Mr. Hill, 
who retired wealthy from the profits of the concern, died rich. The business has, if 
anything, improved since his demise. The plantations have always favored it with 
their patronage, the custom of the house extending throughout Louisiana, Texas and 
Mississippi. Steam and gas fitting is made a specialty by the house, competent me- 
chanics being retained for that purpose. The list of supplies kept in stock includes : 




MAFIOM" & CO., 

167 BARONNE STREET, 

(Successors to Allen Hill,) 

STEAM AND GAS FITTERS, 

— DEALERS IN — 
jtron Pipe, Fittings, Valves, Tools, etc.. 
Boiler Tubes, Gas Fixtures, Hard- 
ware and Plumbers' Materials. 



Steam, gas and water pipe: fitting and valves; tools, pipe, tongs and hardware; 
boiler tubes and pumps; chandeliers and gas fixtures; joints, connections, faucets and 
lead pipe; radiators and ventilators; packing and hose; nozzles, valves and urinals, and 
all sorts of house furnishing apparatus. 

Having gained for itself a reputation during long years of existence, for substan- 
tial work and wares, this house is careful to preserve it. Contracts are carefully filled 
and promptly shipped. This house, representing both the commercial and manufacs- 
turing lines of the trade in the city, is rated as first-class by all who have had transac- 
tions with it. 





LOUISIANA RICE AND FLOUR MILLS. 

Warner & Hoelzel, Pro^. rietors: 26i and 270 Tchoupitoulas street. 

The founder of this mill, Philip Hoelzel, Sr., is the oldest living rice miller in the 
State, and is the originator of the cleansing processes now in vogue. He started the 
Louisiana mill in 1S57, and retired from active participation in its affairs about six 
years ago. His son, Philip Hoelzel, Jr., and Henry Warner succeeded him. Ph. Hoel- 
zel, Jr., was raised in the milling business, and has a most perfect understanding of its 
mercantile and mechanical features. 

The mill, situated at the corner of Calliope and Tchoupitoulas streets, covers half 
a block of land. It is equipped with a hundred horse power engine, recent machinery 
and all the latest expediting conveniencies for dispatching the business of the firm. It 
employs steadily forty hands, and has a capacity for cleaning 200 barrels of rice per 
day. Although rice is its specialty, corn and flour are also milled, and a fair share of 
the profits of the institution come from that source. Shipments of rice, grain, etc., are 
solicited, and satisfaction guaranteed. 

The mill has a custom of its own, but its proprietors are aspiring and pushing busi- 
nesss men, who are always ready to seize the fleeting opportunities of commerce, and 
to enlarge their field of operation. The uninterrupted length of service which the 
■mill has had, shows the stability aud responsibility of the institution. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 173 

THE HOTEL ROYAL. 

Rivers & Bartels, Proprietors: St. Louis, from Royal to Charires street. 

Reminiscent of the halcyon days of the Crescent City, and suggestive of many 
historical events th^t took place within its walls, the Hotel Royal, formerly the St. 
Louis, is one of the most striking structures of the city. The foundation stone of this 
magnificent building was laid in the year 1836. It was at first intended to cover the 
entire block, but the financial crisis of 1837 interfered with that ambitious project. A 
building, however, was erected on the present site at a cost of $1,500,000, that for 
grandeur and adaptability to its uses still compares with the most modern erections 
here or elsewhere. In 1841 a fire destroyed the whole building, but the enterprise of 
that day, equal even to this trying emergency, soon replaced it, and it shortly became 
one of the most celebrated houses of the South. 

A description of this house published many years ago says : 

" One of the most pleasing reccollections of the palmy days of the St. Louis is the 
annual series of Bals de Societe, or subscription balls, that took place every winter in 
its magnificent ball room, then fronting St. Louis street. Nowhere else could a better 
idea of Creole beauty and elegance be realized so well as at those delightful gatherings. 
Particularly vivid to the survivors of that period is the remembiance of a magnificent Bal 
Traveste given in the winter of 1842-43, and, above all, of the splendid entertainment got- 
ten up the same winter in honor of Henry Clay's visit, by his New Orleans friends and ad- 
mirers. The subscription price was $100, and there were two hundred subscribers, the 
ball and supper costing $20,000! Over six hundred ladies and gentlemei^ attended the 
banquet, and the great Commoner spoke in public for the first and only time in New 
Orleans. 

The Constitutional Conventicn, 1843, which embraced every man of talent and in- 
fluence in Louisiana, including John R. Grymes, Soule, Roselius, Mazui-eau, Roman, 
Downs, Conrad, Marigny, Brent and Eustis, was held in the old St. Louis ball room." 

The St. Louis Exchange (Alvarez,) was for a long period the' favorite resort of all 
the leading planters, politicians and merchants of the day. From 13 (noon) until 3 in 
the afternoon the splendid rotunda was occupied by the auctioneers, whose resounding 
appeals were in the English, French and Spanish languages. The rotunda, renowned 
for its magnificent frescoing, then sen'ed the purposes of a Chainber of Commerce, 
Board of Brokers and Cotton Exchange. The political conventions of the old Whig 
and other great parties were also held there. 

The subsequent history of this remarkable house is quite as interesting, but being 
better known its recital would be unnecessary. As is also well known, it has passed into 
the hands of the State, froin whom it has been leased by Messrs. Bartels & Rivers for a 
long term. It has been entirely remodeled and modernized, and now in its interior 
appointments will rival' any of the great hotels in other cities. It contains 250 rooms, 
and will hereafter be known as the Hotel Royal. 



A. LEHMANN & CO. 

Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods, Notions, and Furnishing Goods: 66 and 6S Canal, i, 3, and 5 

Magazine street. 




f the 
men 

The house has been in business here since 1855. The elder Lehmann was its 
founder. Mr. G. Lehmann, who had participated somewhat in the management 
before that time, was admitted to a full partnership about eight years ago. A great 
portion of the trade of Texas, Florida, Mississippi and the Louisiana parishes falls to 
this house by right, as one that has thirty years standing and connections. Rated 
amongst the highest and worthiest establishment of the city, this vigorous and expand- 
ing house is daily growing in importance. 



174 The Industries of New Orleans. 



C. DOYLE. 

Wholesale Grocer; Importer of Liquors, California Wines and Hruntlies, and Rectifier of Spirits: 87 

and Sq Poydras street. 

In the year 1S55 ^^^ well-to-do inerchant, who is referred to hi these paragraphs, 
opened a retail grocery. By close attention to business, and unvarying endeavors to 
satisfy his custoiners, he acquired a sufficient amount of capital to enable him to enter 
into the wholesale trade in groceries and provisions. Subsequently he tried wholesale 
liquor dealing, but finding it more to his advantage to combine the two branches, he is 
now firmly established in one of the best locations of the wholesale quarter, wuth a pat- 
ronage that steadily adheres to him, wherever he may venture.. 

The increasing demand for the excellent products Of the California vineyards ha& 
built up quite a trade with that remote but truly Golden State. Dii-ect transportation 
connections, and an increased interest in the native American products, have boomed 
the trade in these meritorious beverages. Mr. Doyle long ago foresaw this, and has 
profited by his judgment on the matter not a little. With the relations that he bears to 
that branch of the trade he can supply the public at rates beyond the understanding of 
less active rivals. In the general line of groceries and liquors, he carries a stock quite 
up to that of 'any of the wholesalers, and having a superior situation and facilities for 
the rectification of whisky, he is prepared to compete with the best of them that supply 
the Southern States. Exceptionally clever and speedy, he runs his establishment, to use 
a common phrase, -'for all he knows," which as indicated by the service he has seen 
since the year 1S55, is considerably more than common. 

MUNCY & MARCY. 

Lumber and Shingles: 424 and 426 Delord street, New Basin, 

Messrs. M. B. Muncy and F. P. Marcy, the proprietors of tlie fine yard which is lo- 
cated as above described, handle more cypress lumber than any other firm in New Or- 
leans. The house has been established some twelve or fourteen years, Mr. Muncy hav- 
ing been its founder. He has lived here something like eighteen years, having come, 
to the city just after the war. P'or a time thereafter he was in command of the steam- 
boat La Grande, running on Lake Pontchartrain, and owned b}' him. She was sunk, 
and he then purchased the stea.n\Qr Alice, which craft he commanded until going into 
the lumber trade. The boat is still owned by the firm, and is plying in the Amite River 
trade. Mr. Marcy is a native of the city. He entered into the partnership in 1878. 

The trade of this yard is mostly local and a specialty is made of cypress lumber. 
The yard covers two squares. Muncy & Marcvare held in most excellent repute where- 
ever they have dealings. Their credit and resources are of the first order. 

J, VERGNOLE. 

Importers of Liquors and Manufacturers of Cordials and Syrups: 65 Decatur street. 

As successor to Cazaux & Vergnole, the gentleinan whose name this house now 
bears has conducted it with the same skill and success that marked their partnership. 
For twenty years, this house has done a prosperous business, by strictly honorable, 
and square methods of doing business, maintaining its position as a house of uncom- 
inon character, and unusual stability. It has obtained to a marked degree, the 
confidence of the foreign residents, and from this class of customers is gets the larger 
share of its patronage. Mr. Vergnole has lived here all his life, and is a capable, 
sound and conscientious mei chant. He attends personally to all the details of his 
business, and is a very agreeable gentleman to trade with. 

T. A. BECK. 

Cooperage: Office No. iS [North Peters^street ; Manufactory, Carondekt Walk between Rocheblave 

and Tonti streets. 

Beck's Cooperage is one of the largest in New Orleans, and also one of the most 
prosperous. It was founded in 1861. Its proprietor, T. A. Beck, has been in the trade 
here since 1859, having been manager for other large concerns of the kind. He 
supplies both city and country with sugar hogsheads, molasses barrels, half barrels, 
hoops, poles, kegs, etc., keeping constantly on hand a large stock. Particular atten- 
tion is paid by him to trimming and refilling. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 175 

J. B. WASSON. 

Stationer, Printer, Lithographer, etc. : 46 Carondelet street. 

To the generation of business men before the war, the subject of this sketch was 
well known and liighlj- esteemed. He was then as now, the principal stationer of this 
section. Just before the war he retired from active business life, and did not resume 
his connection with the trade until 187 1, at which time he went into a partnership in 
his old vocation under the firm name of Clark & Wasson. In 1876, Mr. Clark with- 
drew and Mr. Wasson has since conducted the affairs of the house alone, a plan which 
seems to have his decided preference. As indicated in these headlines the house is a 
manufacturing concern, with blank books, stationery and mercantile printing as its 
wholesale and retail specialties. Fine lithographing is also performed. The patent 
right for Clark & Wasson's Interest, Average, Time and Maturity tables is owned by 
the house. This is the standard Reference table of tlie United States. 

Mr. Wasson is a lifelong resident of New Orleans. He has been thirty-five _years, 
all told, in the Stationery Trade. 

His record during all that time is unimpeachable. Character, decision, candor and 
honesty have been distinguishing features of his career. Devoted to his own affairs he, , 
has yet found time to participate in those events that tend to advance the interests of 
the community, and accordingly he has actively promoted the Exposition project by 
his counsel and contributions. 

COMMUNY SELTZER WATER MANUFACTORY. 

Heirs of John Co.nmuny & Gustave Pitot, Proprietors: 209 North Rampart street. 

A proper pride is illustrated in the continuation of this model establishment, under 
the name of its founder, although the management of it has been entrusted to most 
competent and worthy hands. John Communy, from whom the place takes its title, 
was a man of varied accomplishments, who figured in the most prominent entei-prises 
of his time. A graduate of the school of Civil Engineers in Paris, the construction of 
the City Water Works of New Orleans is no small part of the public services that he 
' performed. He was also the inventor of the Sulphurous gas apparatus still in use on 
manv sugar estates, and it was his scientific and professional acquirements that 
directed him into the Manufacturing Industry that still bears his name. 

The Communy Seltzer Water Manufactory was established by him in 1S53, at 238 
St. Claude St., in the rear of the present location, so that, in the course of a third of a 
century since its'foundation, there has been, so to speak, no change in the location of 
the concern. The affairs of the institution are now directed by Mr. Gustave Pitot, 
who is the managing partner, holding a joint interest with the Communy heirs. He 
has had control "for some three years past, and has proven himself a skillful and 
thrifty director. A scion of one of the first families of this vicinity, he acc^uired his 
commercial training in some of the best business houses of the city; and he has still, 
in addition to the responsibilities of the Commimy house, the business of the office of 
L. C. Levy & Mandeville to oversee. 

The Seltzer Manufactory transacts a business exclusively local. ha\ing for its 
patrons some of the best bars, numerous families and the "Clubs" of New 
Orleans. 

A Club-man himself, Mr. Pitot knows how to cater to this fine class of consumers. 
This is probably the only manufactory of the sort in the United Stated that uses chalk 
instead of marble dust in its processes, believing that the quality of the gas so 
generated, produces a carbonated beverage softer than that charged with the gas 
produced by marble dust, and yielding also a velvety di^^tillation that is certainly imsur- 
passed hereabouts. The chalk is furnished by the old established firm of Truslow & Co., 
N. Y., is of the finest quality, and no deleterious ingredients are permitted about the 
place, which enjoys an air of cleanliness and order seldom met in this class of 
industry. The apparatus is strikingly simple and consists of two fountains of the 
make of the celebrated " Lenotre" of Paris, which are acknowledged to have no 
superior. 

The Communy Seltzer Companv refers with satisfaction to its patrons, as to the 
merits of its products. The utmost effort has always been made to make a specialty of 
the very highest quality, and to combine care and cleanliness in the operations of the 
place. 

In the matter of enterprise, accommodation and business methods, this house has 
always held the highest repute and it points with pride to its continuous service of 33 
years. " Try it." 



176 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



H. MANUEL. 

Wholesale Dry Goods, Notions, etc.: 20 and 22 Chartres street. New York Office, 115 North street. 

The gentlemanly and thorough merchant whose name is at the head of this article, 
has lived in Louisiana since 1S47, the State thus being his home. For 25 years he was 
the " Company " of the well known Chartres street firm, C. Jaubert & Co., which from 
a moderate beginning rose gradually to the grandeur and dignity of the first class con- 
cern that it is to-day. 

The house has occupied its present quarters for twenty years. Two years ago, the 
style of the firm name was changed to the present designation. The premises in use 
now include two great stores. Eight floors therein are packed with goods. The house 
imports direct from Europe, and has a purchasing agency in New York City, which is 
in charge of Mr. Albert Manuel, the son of H. Manuel, who also shares in the 
management of the house. 

The customers of this house are located all over the Southern States, more paticu- 
larly in the country parishes, in which districts the firm has large investments, includ- 
ing two fine plantations in St. John the Baptist. Mr. Manuel has an extended 
acquaintance in the interior, on account of the fact that he formerly was a large 
country storekeeper. 

The firm's wide property interests (they own the buildings they transact business 
in) and other special ad\antages which they enjoy in the way of cash, discounts and 
unlimited credit, assure the stability of their establishment and enables them to com- 
pete successfully in all branches of their business. 

Mr. Manuel's method of doing business, combining accuracy with liberality, is 
thoroughly appreciated by a vast patronage. It is the boast of this representative 
house that its customers remain with it year in and year out, satisfied that no fairer 
treatment can be got elsewhere. 



THE SOUTHERN SOAP WORKS. 

Manufuctureri of Washing and Toilet Soaps: J. H. Keller, Proprietor, 1 10 Gravier street. 

The largest soap factor^' in the South is located on the square 200x250 feet, 
bounded by Howard, St. Andrew, Ferret and Josephine streets. New Orleans. It was 
established in the year 1S49 by the present proprietor, J. H. Keller, on a small scale, 
but has grown to its present proportions by judicious management, and by following a 
principle that none but the best goods should leave the premises. 

The works being out of the business section, the office has been located in a prom- 
inent place therein — No. no Gra\ier street, from which the vast business of the con- 
cern radiates in all directions, reaching where\er the shipping faculties of the city ex- 
tend, north, east, south and west — from the Northern States to the Texas border — into 
Mexico, Central America and the islands, and even as far west as California. 

Mr. Keller is of Swiss extraction, and is possessed of the sturdy and perserving 
traits generally accredited to his nationality.. Hence his progress from the small be- 
ginning of 1S49 '^o ^^^^ immense concern that employs from sixty to one hundred hands 
at all seasons. Their business is the manufacture of the following favorite brands: 

Laundry soap: Centennial, Favorite, O. K., White Marble, Blue Mexican, Best 
Olive, German Olive, Extra Family, Magnolia, Red Marbled, Blue Marbled, Indigo, 
Eagle, Washington, XXX Palm, Premium Blessed, Soapena Pearl, Soapena Silver. 
Toilet soap: Sulphur, Extra Fine Carbolic, Turkish Bath, Favorite, Oriental Bath and 
Floating, Sterling, Genuine, None Equal, Welcome, Pearl Toilet, Crown Toilet, Castile 
Red Mottled, Carbolic Laundry. 

The laundry goods are put in boxes of 60 lbs. 20 to 120 bars to the box. The at- 
tention of consumers is particularly directed toward the fine Olive Soap manufactured 
by the works. The market is imdersold with this brand. Glubo (tree wash and fertil. 
izer) is sold from the factory by the barrel. 

Special attention is paid by this establishment to securing low freights. This it is 
enabled to accomplish by reason of its enormous shipments, and intimate relations 
with the transportation companies. The exhibit of the Southern Soap Works at the 
Exposition is entered for competition with all the world. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 177 

CORONA COAL. 

^illups, Manning & Co., Lessees of the Corona Coal Mines, located in Walker Count}', Alabama: 
Office, 140 Canal street, Pickwick Club Building, Jsew Orleans. 

The coal trade of this vicinity promises to be much influenced by a recent com- 
bination of interests, the consolidation of the firms of Billups, Manning & Co., and 
Dunn & Dashiell. Hereafter the business of these houses will be conducted under the 
iirm names of Billups, Manning & Co., New Orleans, F. C. Dunn & Co., Corona, 
Alabama, W. J. Dashiell & Co., Galveston, Texas. 

Messrs. E. J. Manning and J. K. Renaud are sufficiently well known in another line to 
need no further comment. Under the intelligent and progressive management ot Mr. 
Billups, the firm of Billups, Manning & Co. had already acquired much prominence, 
but with the infusion of new interests it is bound to be the representative house of its 
line. 

Mr. Dunn, the partner in charge of the mines, has large experience as a practical 
operator of coalmines having filled with much ability the position of superintendent 
of the largest Mines in West Virginia and Alabama. Mr. Dashiell, the partner in 
charge of the Galveston house, is well known in this city as a coal dealer, and will carry 
to his new field of action a large and varied experience. 

These houses deal in all sorts of coal, but make a specialty of the Corona which is 
fast crowding the Pittsburg article out of this market. An analysis of this fuel by no 
less an authority than the celebrated Mining engineer, Jno. Fulton, of the Cambria 
Iron Company, Johnstown, Pa., shows this coal to be of the most superior quality. He 
says of it : 

" For generating steam in locomotive engines and in all similar work it is superior 
to Pennsylvania coals." For domestic purposes it is imsurpassed. Samples of the 
coal can now be seen at the Exposition where it is attracting general attention. Other 
experts have pronounced judgment similar to that of the gentleman quoted above. 
As the Corona Mines have a daily output of 250 tons, which will soon be increased 
to 500 tons, it will readily be seen that these houses are able to supply a large demand. 
Transactions with them may be relied upon to be satisfactory in every particular. The 
conduct of the business is thorough in every respect. 

Mr. Billups' telephone is 229, Massrs. Manning & Renaud S56. They offer special 
inducements on large contracts. 



JOHN T. MOORE, JR., & CO. 

wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants: 37, 39 an J 41 Tchoupitoulas street, and 14 Natchez. 

It will be accepted as a self evident fact that the wholesale grocery trade is the 
most important business interest represented in the City of New O' leans. Even the 
dry goods trade must take a suBsidiary position, inasmuch as eating and drinking are 
even more essentia! to physical existence than clothing, and because no matter how 
poorly people may choose' or be compelled to dress, they must spend their mone} for 
food. Besides this, New Orleans, by virtue of her geographical position and great 
mercantile facilities, is the great centre of supply for the trade of a large section of 
country. While this branch of business is represented in the Crescent City by many 
sound houses, there are probably none better known than that of Messrs. John T. 
Moore, Jr., &: Co., at Nos. 37, 39 and 41 Tchoupitoulas street, and 14 Natchez street. 
This house was originally established bv John T. Moore, in 1S50. The large four 
story store, 90 x 100 feet in extent, is filled from top to bottom witii a large assortment 
of everything carried in a wholesale grocery house. The advantage possessed by this 
firm over manv others is that they are receivers of sugar, molasses, flour, corn, pork, 
and many other staples, from first hands, which enables them to sell at \ery low prices. 
They deal largely in wines and liquors, of which they keep a selection of choice brands; 
the same mav be said of their stock of tobacco and cigars. A considerable supply of 
Hostetter's Bitters is in stock. This house is the depot for that popular beverage. 
Particular attention is paid to plantation supplies, cow peas and cooperage specialties. 
From their long experience in business and the advantages they possess, they are en- 
abled to compete with anv house in the trade. The members <.f this firm are Mr. John 
T. Moore, Jr., and .Mr. Charles H. Walker, gentlemen who are well enough known in 
the communits- to make further commendation unnecessary. 



KXPOSITION KXHIBITORS. 



Among other weighty concerns that have contributed to the splendor of the Ex- 
position by characteristic displays, and thus deserved more than a passing remark, the 
following are particularly noticeable. The caption to each slyetch will be recognized as 
that of an establishment, which, if it may not strictly be classed with the local indus- 
tries, yet upon such an occasion as the present, has' relations with 'this section that en- 
titles it to a place in this volume. 

The handsome engravings of the Exposition buildings in this work are furnished 
by Mp. Wm. Bogel, commission merchant, who has endeavored to assist the great un- 
dertaking by publishing a series of highly illuminated views of the six great buildings 
on th| grounds. These are to be enclosed in a finely illustrated envelope for inailing, 
and are for sale at the moderate price of 25 cents per set. They are the handsomest 
souvejair of the World's Fair yet issued. Agents are wanted at 48 Carondelet street. 
Address, Wm. Bogel & Co., New Orleans, La. 

I THE ARKWRIGHT SILK MILL. 

Doherfy & Wa 'sworth, Paterson, N. J. : Manufacturers of Dress Goods, Handkerchiefs, Ribbo'ns, Gren 
adines, etc. Jas. F. Stewart, Manager of Exhibit, T and T T, 7 and 8, S. E. corner of Main Building. 

The finest silk handkerchiefs, dress goods and grenadines, in the American market^ 
are acknowledged to be the product of the celebrated Arkwright Mill, of Patterson, N_ 
J. The exhibit of this company at the Exposition is one ot the most striking to be 
seen in that world of wonders. There is being shown a silk handkerchief woven in a 
loom, the first ever made in Louisiana. Other processes are also shown or explained 
by the courteous manager for the company, Mr. Jas. F. Stewart. 

This mill was- established at Patterson six years ago. It is an immense concern, 
with premises 300x85, in which 1000 men and women find employment. It rivals in 
the volume of its products the largest concerns of the kind in America. The proprie- 
tors, Messrs. Doherty & Wadsworth, having been brought up from boyhood to the bus- 
iness, are perhaps the best posted people engaged in manafactvn-ing silks in thi& 
country. They were bred to this line as employes of the Phoenix mill, and now have 
an establishment rivaling that institution. Messrs. Portiar, Megroz & Co,, of 85 and 
87 Grand street. New York, sell the goods made at this mill. The Arkwright stand is- 
close'to the Magazine street entrance to the main Exposition building. 

THE PIONEER SILK CO. 

Paterson, N. J.: John Ryle, President and Treasurer; Thos. M. Ryle, Sup't ; Reuben Ryle, Secretary ;: 
John Ryle, Jr., Exposition Representative, FF and G, 24 and 26. Main Building. 

The first silk mill successfully operated in America is the one which is tire subject 
of this sketch. It was founded in 1838, and its founder, Mr. John Ryle, still sui'vives in 
the management. The circumstances under which it was established were not propi- 
tious. All the hands employed at first had to be instructed in the business, as there 
were none in this coiintry at that early manufacturing date. A moderate success at- 
tended this pioneer effort in the beginning, but after years were much more kindly, 
and now this is one of the great manufacturing institutions of the great manufacturing 
State of New Jersey.' The Pioneer Silk Company operates two mills at Paterson. 
They own the Murray Mill and lease the Gun Mill. The Murray Mill covers two acres.. 
Together this concern employ over 400 men and women, and supplies all the markets- 
of America with : ... . . ... 

Brocades, Handkerchiefs, Gros Grain, Tram, Floss, Surahs, Serge, Millinery Silks,, 
Gauze, Organzine, Danichiefs, Crape, Embroidery, Sewing Silks, Ottomans, Satins,. 
Fringe, Twills. 

They manufacture about 10,000 yards of ribbon a day, a ton of thread a week, and 
something like 100 dozen handkerchiefs every working day. Their specialty is the- 
" A" brand of ribbons. This company was the first in the world to spool silk. For- 



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merlj silk was all sold in skeins. They have a silk writing machine in opei-ation at the 
Exposition, under the direction of Mr.'E. A. Moon, who is the originator of that sort 
of work. This device received the first inedal premium at the great Atlanta Interna- 
tional Exposition of iSSi. 

John Ryle, Jr., who has charge of this exhihit, was bred to the business, will be 
pleased to entertain visitors and dealers, and to impart all necessary information. 
Messrs. Fleitman & Co., of 489 Broome street. New York, are the sole agents for the 
Pioneer Company's " A" ribbons. Mr. Jno. Ryle, Sr., is a distinguished man in his 
section, aside from his silk interests. He built a water works for Paterson some fortv 
years ago, and is still president of the corporation running it. ■ 

CLARK'S O. N.T. SPOOL COTTON. 

Geo. A. C:ark & Bro., Paisley, Scotland and Newark, N. J. Robert Brotherson, Agent, G, 22 Main 

Building. 

The largest thread mills in the world are those that are described in this sketch. It 
is safe to say too, that their products are preferred to all others the world over. This 
great concern was founded in i8i3 at Paisley, Scotland, in a small way. Such has 
been the growth of the concern and the expansion of its operations, that il has now an 
American establishment (Newark, N.J.,) that employs 3,000 men and women, in ad- 
dition to 3,500 operators in the old country. The NeWark factory is one of the laigest 
in that city of great manufacturers. It covers fifteen acres of ground and is five stories 
high. It contains eighty-eight automatic spooling machines, each one completing 
6,000 spools a day. There is in use here, cotton machinery invented and owned only 
by the firm itself. The very latest improvements are adopted as soon as possible. The 
Newark factory pays the highest average wages of any manufactory in the world. It 
ships its product to all parts of the globe. Its specialty is the famous o. n. t. six cord 
spool cotton. 

The fast black thread made at these mills is really the only black thread made. At 
the Exposition the company has running the full line of their machinery, illustrating 
thus the processes in vogue, by running, winding and spooling the thread. The auto- 
matic spooling machine here exhibited, is an invention of Mr. William Clark's, is the 
finest piece of machanism of the sort in use, and is so acknowledged to be by experts. 

Mr. Robert Brotherson, who is the Exposition representative for the firm, has been 
fifteen years a responsible man for the Clark's. He is deputized to perform all their 
business in the Southern country and will be pleased to entertain dealers and others 
who may be interes-ed in the exhibit. 



Manufacturers of Arms 



E. REMINGTON & SONS. 

Sewing Machines, Agricultural Appnratus, Type Writers, Etc., Ilion, N. Y. : 
TT 24 an'd U Main Building. 

Although the reputa- 
tion of this monster es- 
tablishment is largely 
based upon the merits 
of its superior arms, 
that line of manufacture 
is not its sole employ- 
ment, as will be seen by 
the headlines to this ac- 
count of its affairs. 
Nevertheless it must be 
admitted that this is its 
great specialty. Nearly 
seventy years ago a 
moderate start was 



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made. A most wonderful prosperity has attended its operations Irom the very founda- 
tion of the concern by the late E. Remington. Forty acres of ground are covered b}- 
these works, and the names of 2,000 employes are on the pay rolls. The trade is with 
the world at large, and most of its transactions are on a grand scale with foreign gov- 
ernments. Just at present the Remington Company is filling an immense order from 
China, requiring the works to be rim day and night. All the Central and South Amer- 
ican States, Egypt and Spain, use the Remington military arms. The United States is 




The Industries of New Orleans. i8i 

also a large patron of the company. The greatest private armory in the world is that 
maintained by E. Remington & Sons. It has facilities sufficient to satisfy a demand 
for I, GOG military weapons and the accompanying equipments a day, besides the trade 
in sporting arms and implements. This company turns out about a third more sport- 
ing goods than any other arms manufactory in this country. 

Mr. F. F. Hilder is agent and general business manager in charge of the exhibit of 
fire arms made by this concern at the Exposition, He attends to the general affairs of 
the company in this connection, and Will be found to be conversant with all the details 
in this line. Mr. C. F. Herbert looks after the fine exhibit of sew^ing machines made 
by the firm. Mr. W. O. Woycoff, of Woycoff, Seamans & Benedict, New York City, 
who handle all the type writers made by the Remington Company, is in charge of that 
department of their exhibit. These exhibits are all to be found at TT 24 and 26 Main 
Building. In addition to these very clever and accommodating representatives, Mr. 
Antonio Ruiz, who has been inspector of all the arms sold to the Spanish speaking 
countries, is acting as interpreter for the company. 

The agricultural implement display is made separately by this company at PP and 
Q, 54 and 55. It is in charge of Mr. Potterfield, and comprises a large exhibit of reap- 
ers, hay rakes, plows, shovels, hoes, etc. Mr. B. J. C. Howe will also be found in this 
department. He represents the force pumps and horse power fire engines manufac- 
tured by this company. 

In the machinery annex. Section B, B and C, 5 and 6, will be found another ma- 
chine manufactured by the Remington Company, the Universal Fibre Decorticator, in- 
vented by Mr. T. Albee Smith, who is in charge of the exhibit. This machine prom- 
ises to be one of the greatest value to the Southern States, and all other fibre growing 
sections, as it will save an immense amount of labor and produce a better article than 
is possible by the old tedious hand processes. 

THE SETH THOMAS CLOCK CO. 

Thomaston, Conn. A Thomas, President; Seth Thomas, Secretary; E. P. Baird, Representative: R. 37.. 

Main Building. 

The oldest clock works in America and probably the oldest in the world, are those 
described in this sketch. The Seth Thomas Clock Co. was established in 1S13, on a 
scale commensurate with the times. To day the factory covers five acres of ground 
and furnishes 1,000 people with employinent. 

In 1S62 the change to the present designation was made by incorporation, and since 
that date the trade has expanded until the Seth Thomas clocks are to be found all over 
the world. 

The town of Thomaston was formerly known as Plymouth Hollow, but about 25 
years ago this name was changed in honor of the company to Thomaston. Seth 
Thomas the founder of the establishment, is dead, but he lived long enough to see the 
fruits of his management in the gigantic manufacturing corporation known by his 
name. His sons Seth and Aaron, with his grandson S. E. Thomas, continue at the head 
of affairs. Branch stores are maintained by this concern in Chicago, San Francisco 
and London. The main salerooms and treasurer's office is in NewYork City. Their 
exhibit maybe found at R. 37 Main Building, the location known to everybody as " the 
big clock." For this immense timekeeper the Washington University of St. Louis 
furnishes correct time. 

THE WILLIMANTIC THREAD CO. 

Willimantic Conn.: Col. L. A, Barbour, President; J. A. Atwood, assisted by W. F. Adam<:, Exposition 
Agent. G. G. 7 to iS Main Building. 

The only company having an exclusively American management, that is engaged 
in thread manufacture in America is that which is herein described, the Willimantic 
Thread Company, which also ha^ a most interesting and complete display of the pro- 
cess of thread manufacture from the raw cotton stages on. A space of 260 b3'24feet of 
the main building is required to make this exhibit. It is in charge of Mr. W. F. Adams, 
who is manager of the company's affairs in the departments of the South. He attends 
to all business arising out of the Exposition for it, during Mr. Atwood's absence. 

The Willimantic Company has four mills running. It employs 3000 men and 
women. It was at first a manufacturer of linen threads only, but now makes spool 
cotton also, the latter being its specialty. The Willimantic six cord spool cotton is 
universally considered the best thread for sewing machines.. The New York office of 
this company is at 100 and 102 Worth street. 



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The Industkies of Neav Orleans. 



IKTDEX:, 



REPRESENTATIVE HOUSES. 



Adams, Chas. H., maniifactui el's' iigent ; bro- 
ker for the wholesale grocery trade i^S 

Adains, John I. & Co., wholesale grocers and 
liquor dealers 7° 

Alabama and Factor," Press, The, Sawjer 
Hay>vard, proprietor S2 

Anchor Line, The, St. Louis and New Orlea s 
rive: steamers; Capt. J. B. Woods, general 
agent at New Orieans 64 

Andrieu Bros., manufacturers of hand sewed 
and screwed boots and shoes 16S 

Auvray, J. E., Mississippi iron coffee ware- 
houses 7^ 

Auze & Son, cotton brokers 162 

Aycock, Michell & Co., commission dealers in 
cattle, hogs and sheep 12S 

Baker, Sloo & Co., manufacturers and im- 
porters of saddlery, harness, collars, etc 152 

Baldwin A., & Co'., hardware, 69 

Barker, Frank, wholesale grocer; country and 
western produce H^ 

Barker & Pescud, general fire, inland and ma- 
rine insur ince agency 66 

Barkley, Thomson A: Co., sugar, molasses and 
rice M^ 

.Bassetti &Xiques, imp. >rters of wines, cognacs, 
gins, rums, Scotch and Irish whiskies, also 
vermouth, etc .• • Si 

Baumann & Jung, impor ers and dealers in 
fine win«s and liquors 146 

Beck, T. A. cooperage i7S 

Ijerkson Bros., rectifiers, compounders and 
wholesale dealers in groceries 96 

Bidwell, David, proprietor of the Academy of 
Music, St. Charles Theater and the Grand 
Opera House 'lo 

Billups, Manning & Co., lesses Corona coal 
mines '77 

Blessing, S. T., wholesale and retail dealer in 
pictures, frames, moldings albums, etc. ; 
publisher of the Louisiana and Nevv Orleans 
views, souvenir view albums, etc 120 

Bloch, S. & Co., commission merchants in cot- 
ton, sugar and rice i59 

Boisseau « Martinez, wholesale dealers in hats 120 

Boissonneau, Paul, merchanttailor '. . . 163 

Bornio & BrotHier, tobacco and cigars; Havana 
lotteiv prizes cashed 96 

Boudetl H. N. & Co., wire works and steam 
bird cage factory, railings, screens, etc . . 159 

Brierre, Tneo. & Son, sugar, molasses and rice 
brokers ' ^6 

Brook Rice Mil's, The, C. J. Allen, successor 
to Allen & Syme, millers and manufacturers' 
agents.... '3^ 

Buckner, Newton, cotton factor and commis- 
sion merchant 75 

Buddecke, C. B. & Co., general commission 
merchants • 'S" 

•Caldcr, John & Co., sugar factors and Western 
produce dealers '•^7 

Carrolton Oil Company, manufacturers of cot- 
ton seed products; 1-. Streuhy, Prest;Jno. 
C. Schwartz, Sec'v ,.... 164 

Chaffe, R H. & Bro.. wholesale grocers and 
importers '55 

Chase, C H., cotton pickery 70 

Clar.i & Meader, importers and dealers in fan- 
cy a .>1 staple groceries, wines and liquors... 127 

Clarke, James, coffee dealer 136 

Clarke, John H., photographer 160 

Cohn, Joseph, nianufacture;- and iobbcr of 
clothing and gents" furnishing goods 165 



76 
103 

'75 



92 



137 



Coleman, H. Dudley, foundry and plantation 
miichinerv ; foundry and machine shops 

Commercial Press, Tl e, Smith & Goldsmith, 
• roprietors 

Commmunv Seltzer Water Manufacturory, 
Gustav Pitot, manager 

Compagnie Generaie Trasatlantique, Agence 
de New Orleans ; A. Schreiber 155 

Converse, E. K , Commission Merchant 9S 

Cooper's Cotton Press, S. E. Coulon, proprie- 
tor 

Crescent City Cornice Works, The, Backus & 
Brisbin, proprietors; sk) lights and tin roof- 

itig 

Crescent City Press, The, A. P. Mason, pro- 
prietor • 

Crescent Citv Seltz and Mineral Water Com- 
pany, E. Deblieux, President; S. Brulard, 
secretary .... .. 100 

Crescent Cotton Pickery, G. Kahn, proprietor 125 

Crescent Insurance Co., The, W. K.Lyman, 
president; Chas. H. Dolsen, vice-president; 
Chas. E.Rice, secretary 120 

Cusachs, P. L. chemist and druggist 143 

Cusimano, A A: Co., shipping and commission 
merchants; agents of the Mediterranean and 
New York .S. S. companies 74 

Dalsheimer, .S. tt Co., notions Si 

Danneel, R. & Bro., cotton factors and general 
commission incrchants 156 

Delery & Purves, Weighers and Gangers 146 

Delpit Factory, The AT, Alfred Dufilho, propri- 
etor; manufacturer of snuff and tobacco, in- 
side back cover and 103 

Dillard, Thos. H., live stock sold on commis- 
sion 12S 

Dillon, Wm., dealer in bagging, rope, gunny 
bags, twine and iron ties 168 

Donahue Mattress Manufacturing Company, 
The, patent cord-bound matresses, ticks, 
tickings, etc '64 

Donald & McKenzie, boiler makers and black- 
smiths; steamboat and marine work a spec- 
ialty 156 

Doyle, C, wholesale grocer, rectifier and im- 
porter of liquors 174 

Dubois, J- dmond, importer of wines and 
brandies iS7 

Duffy, L. J., manufacturer of trunks, bags, 
valises, etc 151 

Dimhar's Sons, G. W., packers of semi-tropi- 
. al pioducls: distillers of French cordials 
and manufacturers of fruit svrups 89 

Dupont Powder Company, W. D. Ho.le, agent 109 

Jidwards & Haublman, manufacturers of sugar 
making macliinery and apparatus 95 

Elkin & Co., carpeting, rugs, oil cloths, up- 
holsterers' goods, etc 90 

Engelliach, T., successor to Boericke & Tafel, 
liomoeop; t lie pharmaceutists and publishers 160 

tiisminger. A., Crescent Steam Trunk Manu- 
factory; also waterp oof clothing 148 

Ertz, Kdward F'., engraver on wood; design- 
ing," drafung, sketching from nature, etc. .. . 14S 

Factors and Traders Ins. Co., The, >> d. A. 
Palfrev, president; iohn Chaffe, vice-presi- 
dent; T. F. Walker, secretary 74 

Feibleman A: Son, E , wholesale grocers 145 

Fell & Co , fire insurance 147 

Fenner, E. C, carriage repository, harness, etc, 140 

Fire-Proof Press, The, J. P. Moore, proprietor 118 

Fisher & Caulfield, wholesale liquor dealers, 
tobacconists and commission merchants.... 61 



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183 



TAGE. 

3Fischer, John, successor to Crcsliain: book- 
seller, stationer and printer 151 

Eitzwilliam, T & Co., manufacturing stition- 
ers, printers and lithographers (see also back 

- cover) 170 

Elautr, R. M. & Co., commission dealers in 

ii live aiock 13 (. 

Frederickson, F., who esale and retail druggist 121 
Frowenfeld, J. M., general commission mer- 
chant — flour, prov sions and grain 131 

Gauche's Sons, John, importers of crockery, 

china, glassware, etc 131 

Geiger, A. & Co., importers of foreign cloths 
and tailors' trimmings; agent for Attakapas 

cottonade 100 

Gelpi, Paul & Bro., importers of wines, cor- 
dials, brandies, etc 146 

-Germania Insurance and >afe Deposit Com- 
pany, The, fire, marine and river insurance; 
safety vault for the deposit of valuables, etc. 60 
Glover & Odendahl, commission merchants. . . iii 
•Gogreve, H. R., wholesale grocer, importer 

and dealer in wines and liquors 129 

■Gragard, John J., general commission mer- 
chant with cotton and the purchase of mer- 
chandise a specialty 154 

Graham, L. & Son, Ijook and job printing; 
dealers in printers' supplies, etc. (see also 

second page of cover) 109 

Greve & Wildermann, western produce, com- 
mission and forwarding merchants 140 

Griswold, A. B. & Co., importers of watches, 

diamonds, jewelry and silver-\vare 67 

Grunewald, Louis, piano, organ and music 

house 161 

Gumbel Bros. & Mayer, cotton factors and 

commission merchants 122 

Hagartv, Dennis, cotton pickery 130 

Haller, H., dealer in stoves, tin and plated 

v/are, house andsteamboatfurnishing goods. 114 
Hardie, John T. & Co., cotton factors and 

commission merchants 128 

Harrison & Bettison, general commission and 

produce merchants 130 

Hart, J., diamonds, watches, jewelry, etc 149 

Hart^vell, C. C, plumbing and gas materials, 

steam fitting, etc 165 

Hawkins, J. D. &Co., cotton factors and com- 
mission merchants 154 

Hezekiah, H. E., electric, vapor, and medi- 
cated baths 166 

Hibernia National Bank, The, pres., Geo. R. 
Preston: vice pres., John G. Devereux; 

cashier, Chas. Palfrev 105 

Hirsch, Philip, cooperage 114 

Hogan, K. M. & Co., cotton factors and com- 
mission merchants 129 

Hogan, T. J. — Wm Hogan, agent, manufac- 
turer and dealer in fine French, English and 

American shoes 153 

Hollander, F. & Co., importers and dea'ers in 

foreign and domestic wines and liquors 67 

Holmes, D. H., wholesale and retail dry goods, 

E.D. W'il left and A. Hoffman, managers . 57 
Hope Insurance Company, The, J . A. Chala- 
ron, president ;MauT ice Stern, vice-president; 

Louis Barnett, secretary 87 

Hotel Royal, The, Rivers «5z Bartels, proprie- 
tors, 1 72 -3 

Hovle, W. D., agent Dupont Powder Co., 
H'-rcules Powder Works, and St. Louis 

Sh..t Tower Co 109 

Hyman, L chtenstein Sz Co., cotton lactors 

and commi sion merchants 126 

International Cotton P-ess Co., The, A. J. 
Landauer, president; C. J. Meyer, vice 

president ; S . S Eiseman, manager 82 

Isaacson, Capt. H . M ., general agent for the 
State of Louisiana of the Manh; ttan Life 

Insurance Company of New York 112 

.Ivens, Edmund M . & Son, manufacturers of 
and dealers in stationary and portable steam 
engines, plantation machinery, etc 97 



PAGE. 

Jackson & Kilpatrick, importers and dealers 
in salt 139 

Jam. son's Son, S., dealer in sugar lime, sul- 
phur, fire brick and build ng materials 90 

Kanlz, Jos., wholesaler v,nd importer of Ha- 
vana aud domestic cigar,-, pipes, smoking 
and chewing tobacco, etc 166 

Katz & Barnett, importers and jobbers of no- 
tions, hosiery, ribhons, furnishing goods, etc. 137 

Keiffer Bros., manufacturers and wholesale 
dealers in boots aud shoes 157 

Kentucky Cotton Press, The, Edward Keenan, 
and AnseyL. Slawson, proprietors 77 

K'lotz, Bernard & Co., manufacturers of 
crackers, biscuits, macaroni, vermicelli, etc. iii 

Kursheedt & Bienvenu, builders' hardware, 
mantels, monuments and tombs 144 

Latargue & Brierre, books, church ornaments, 
foreign literature, etc 147 

I^afitte & Dufilho, co;nmission and real estate. 124 

Lallande, J. B., cotton factor, commission mer- 
chant, and agent for the sale of cotton seed 
oil mill products 63 

Lambert, A., wholesale and retail dealer in 
Pittsburg, Anthracite and Cannel coals loi 

I^ambert, p . A., importer and wholesale deal- 
er in French brandy, wines, foreign and do- 
mestic liquors, cordials, etc 58 

Le"^er, Philipp, merchant tailor and importer 
of fine goods 132 

Lehmann & Co., importers and jobbers of dry 
goods 177 

I.,hote & Co., the "Old Basin" steam sash, 
door and blind factory and lumber yards 8S 

Lilienthal, Edward, diamonds, silver\yare, 
jevsrelry, bronzes and fine pottery 159 

Lilienthal, Theo., photographer and picture 
frai.ie manufacturer 92 

Liverpool Cotton Press, Johnston & Randolph 
proprietors 96 

Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance 
Co., The, Henry V. Ogden resiaenl secretary; 
J. P. Roux, assistant sec'y; Clarence F. 
Low, dep'ty ass't sec'y 132. 1S7 

Lob's Chas., Sons, jobbers of cloths 145 

Lochte, Henry & Co., wholesale grocers and 
liquor dealers 102 

Loeb, Felix & Co., importers and dealers in 
wines, liquors and cigars 147 

Louisiana Cistern Manufactory, J. Husse}', 
proprietor 162 

Louisiana Cotton Press, The E. K. Bryant 
proprietor 75 

Louisiana National Bank, The, Joseph H. 
Oglesby, president; A. Luria, cashier 91 

Louisiana Plated Ware Manufactory, F. Bertel, 

proprietor » 142 

Louisiana Rice and Flour Mills, Warner & 

Hoelzel, proprietors 171 

Louisiana Steam Sash, Blind and Door Facto- 
ry, The, Roberts & Co., proprietors 93 

Louisiana Sugar Refining Company, The, John 
S. Wallis, president; Wm. B. Schmidt, vice- 
president; J. P. Eggleston, secretary 127 

Louisiana Troy Laundry, Victor Nippert & 
Co., proprietors ; S. H. West, Manager 142 

Macheca Bros., imporlers and whole- alers of 
tropical, Mediierranean and domestic fruits; 
m.anaging owners of the New Orleans and 
Belize Royal Mail S. S. Co , 84 

M;!checa, Joseph P., fruit and commission 
merchant ,. 129- 

Macou, P. & Co., wholesale and retail dealers 
in fancy and staple dry goods 145 

Manade & Fedarre, country produce, cotton, 
sugar, rice and molasses 119 

Manion & Co., plumber^, steam and gas fit- 
ters, and dealers in plumhing materials; ... 171 

Manning- & Renaud, manufacturers' agents;.. 73 

Manuel, H., wholesale dry goods, notions, etc; 176 

Mariposa Rice Mills, The, Stewart & Rickert, 
Proprietors 179 



IS4 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



PAGE. 

Martintz, F. P., manufacturer and w liolcsale 
dealer in boots and shoes 73 

Maupin, R. L. \- Co.. live stock on commis- 
sion; main office, M while, Ala 126 

Maxwell & I'eale, cotton factors 104 

May, Eugene, d aler in drugs, medicines, 
fancy toilet articles, soaps, nerfumerv, etc... 103 

Mayer, Pa 1. D., cigar manufacturer and New- 
Orleans ageit for the evmania I.,ife Insur- 
ance Co. , of New York 105 

McCown, H. D., clothing, shirts, furnishing 
goods, hats, et^: 162 

McFarlane. John J. & Co , cooperage 145 

McOraw, Morris, wholesale dealer in wooden, 
willow, glass and tinware, paper, cordage, 
fireworks, fishing tackle, and general turn- 
ishing goods 115 

Mechanics' an I Traders' In-s. Co., The, Lloj'd 
R. Coleman, Pre-ident; George H. Frost, 
Secretary loS 

Mch'e, C. & Co., comm ssion merchants for 
the sale of live stock 136 

Mendelsohn, S., manufacturers' and distillers' 
agent IS7- 1S8 

Merchants' Mutual Insurance Co., The, P. 
Fourchy, president; G.W. Nott, secretary.. . 158 

Mercier, O. & Sons, mens', youths' and boys' 
clothing, etc., wholesale and retail 150 

Miller, A. K. & Co., steamship and ship agents ; 
dealers in fertilizers 65 

Miller & Dielmann, steam candy manufactur- 
ers and wholesale conf • ctioners ; manufac- 
turers of syrups ; de ot for fireworks ; agents 
for California wines and brandies 149 

Miners' Oil Company, The, of N. Y., J. D. 
Tilden, man ger New Orleans agency 165 

Montgomery, Albert, live stock on commission ; 117 

Moore, John T. Jr., & Co., wholesale grocers 
and commission merchants 177 

Moore, Lucas E. & Co., steamship agents; 
cotton, grain and coffee merchants 74 

Moritz, S. A., fire insuran'-e 144 

Moulton, Alfred iS:Co., agents for the Crom- 
well Steamship Line for New York direct... S7 

MuUer, J. C, importer and jobber of millinery 
and fancy goods, hats, fiowers, feathers, 
trimmings, etc 71 

Muncy & Marcy, lumber and shingles 174 

Mutual National Bank, The, John T. Hardie, 
president ; Joseph Mitchel, cashier; 169 

Myers, L., agent for Schoolherr, Bernstein & 
Co., New York mar.ufacturers of clothing. . . 145 

Navra's China Palace, wholesale and retail 
crockery, imported wares, etc.; M. L. Nav- 
ra, proprietor.. 165 

Nestler, M. H., general insurance agent 150 

New Art Gallery, The,N. Winther & Co., pho- 
tographers 129 

New Orleans Canal and Banking Company, 
The, J. C. .Morris, president; Edward Toby, 
cashier; J. B. Montreiul, ass't cashier S6 

New Orleans Insurance Company, The, J. 
Tuyes, president; Ad. Schreiber, vice-presi- 
dent ; J. W. Hincks, secretary; Jos. A. 
Hi neks, assistant secretary 71 

New Orleans Sugar Refinery, The, Kirchoff 
Brothers, refineis and dealers in Louisiana 
sugars, molasses and syrups 155 

Newton & Stoddard, wholesale grocers and 
commission merchants; dealers in wines, 
liquors, tobacco and cigars 141 

Noble, John I., cotton factor t 135 

Nonotuck Silk C<)mi)any, The, Corticelli spool 
silk, etc. ; C. H. Sampson, agent 145 

Norden, A. & Co., cotton shippers iib 

Nores, H. L., fancy and saple dry goods, rib- 
bons, embroideries, laces, hosiery, gloves, etc. 1^6 

Offner,E., importer and dealer in china, crock- 
ery, glassware, cutlery and house furnishing 
Roods 134 

Ong, Richard M., paints, oils, building materi- 
als, etc 119 



PAGE. 

Orleans Cotton Press, The, Fairchild & 
O'Brien, lessees " 61 

O'Rourke, td. & Jas., steam boiler manufac- 
turers 116 

Oteri, S., importer and wholesaler of fn its, 
foreign and domestic; commission merchant 
and agent for the Oteri Pioneer Central Amer- 
ican line of steam packets 141 

Pablo, S., agent for Armstrong's corks, etc. . .. 143 

Palmer, E. C. i*tr Co., manufacturers and 
wholesale dealers in paper, etc 99 

Parisian Shirt Factory, The, F. Gueble, pro- 
prietor; gents furnishing goods and steam 
laundry 151 

Pascal, G. it Co., general rommission mer- 
chants; agents for the sale of provisions, 
whiskey, cotton, sugar, rice, etc 142 

Paquette, J. J., manufacturer of the Sunlight 
gas machine 117 

Pelton Sugar Refinery, The, Joseph Dunbar, 
proprietor 104 

Penn's Cotton Press, J. P. Parker and G. E. 
Pitcher, lessees 124 

People's Bank of New Orleans, The,, U. Mar- ' 
inoni, president : N. Landry, cashier 154 

People's Insurance Company, The, E. Pragst, 
president; M. Popovicti, vice-president; P. 
M. Schneidau, secretary j 113 

Pfeifer, M., & Son, general commission mer- 
chants for the sale of pork, bacon, lard, 
hams, flour, corn meal and grain i6j 

Picayune Saw Mills, The, F. P'ischer & Sons, 
proprietors 169 

Planters' Crescent Oil Company, D. C. McCan, 
president; Ed. Ivy, vice-president; James 
M. Winship, secretary 98- 

Planters' Press, The, and Crescent City yard, 
No. 2 ; Thomas C. Herndon, proprietor 135; 

Planters' Sugar Refining Company, The, John 
Barkley, president ; A. A. Lelong, secretary 144- 

Pleasants, R. B., cotton pickery 63 

Pollock, W. A. & Co., cotton factors and c mi- 
mission merchants 107 

Post, R. B. & Son, commission merchants and 
dealers in I^ouisiana and western produce; 
agents Tampa S. S. Co 136 

Pozzi Brothers, importers and dealers in 
wines and liquors 135 

Purves' Sash Factory, lumber, lath, shingles, 
etc.; planing and molding factory 71 

Queyrouze, Leon, wholesale groceries and 
1 iquors 68- 

Kanlett, D. L., cordage, shot, jjowder, bag- 
aring, t es, brooms, etc 133 

Reinerth, Wm., direct importer of hats 156 

Reiss, James J., steam cracker and confection- 
ery manufactory 64 

Renshaw, J ames A., cotton and sugar factor 
and general commission merchant 94 

Rice, Born & Co , dealers in hardware, tools, 
agricultural implements, cooking and heat- 
ing utensils, etc 54, 55 

R'chardson. John P., dry goods and notons, 
manufacturer-.' agent 70 

Richardson & May, cotton factors and commis- 
sion merchants 56 

Rick', Adolph G. & Co , importers of leather 
and shoe findings 134 

Roder, Frank & Co., dealers in bourbon and 
rye whiskies; agents Sunrise Rice Mill- 137 

Roper, G. W., gents' furnishing goods 16S 

Samuels, A., The Enterprisesteam sash, blind, 
and door factory, planing mills and lumber 
yards 117 

Santa Cruz & Infante, Jr., imported and do- 
mestic cigars, cigarettes, smoking ;.nd chew- 
ini- tobaccos 133 

Sarrazin's Son, J. P , & Co.; wholesale and re- 
tail dealers and manufacturers of smoking 
and chewing tobacco, snuff, cigars, etc 7S 

Schenck, Chas. II., dealer and importer in for- 
eign and domestic fruits and nuts 88 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



185 



PAGE. 

Schmidt & Magee, commission merchants in 
western and country produce 144 

Schmidt & Ziegler, wholesale grocers and im- 
porters of wines and liquors 99 

Schmutz, R., successor to C. Duhamel, op- 
tician 98 

Schulz, Chas. G., die sinker and general en- 
graver 136 

Schwabacher, J. & M., general commission 
merchants 106 

Schwartz, Louis, engines, pumps and all kinds 
of machinery 149 

Schwartz, M., dealer in mill, plantation, en- 
gineer and railway supplies 139 

Seago, A. K. & Co., brokers and commission 
merchants; specialties, sugar, molasses, rice 
and coffee 130 

Septoline and Safety Oil Co , T. Sewell, man- 
ager; oil stoves, oils, lamps, etc 161 

Shepard, W. C, crockery, china, glassware, 
etc 141 

Shippers' Cotton Press and Yards, The, Boyd 
& Herrick, proprietors 79 

Singer Manufacturing Co., The, sewing ma- 
chines ; S. E, Rundle, agent 112 

Smith, Ed., manufacturer of rubber stamps, 
stencils, etc; dealer in seal presse.'^, brushes, 
inks, etc 114 

Smith, H. S., Jr. & Co., cotton brokers 125 

Smith, Marshall J. & Co., g'eneral fire, marine, 
river, li e, accident and guarantee insurance. 107 

Socola, A., Louisiana Rice Depot 121 

Soule's Business College, Col. George Soule, 
president 167 

Southern Brewing Co., The: Peter Blaise, 
president; Geo. Faehnle, vice-jjre-ident; H. 
H. Bierhorst, director; Ernest Pra^st, Jr., 
secretary loi 

Southern Insurance Company, The, Ernest 
Miltenberg-er, president, H. Ga'ley, vice- 
president; Scott McGehee, secretary 90 

Southern Soap Works, The, J. H. Keller, pro- 
prietor 176 

Southern Transportation Line, The, for Cin- 
cinnati, Louisville, Evansville, and Cairo; 

Capt. A. M. Haliday, agent 75 

Southwestern Brush-light Co., electric light 
and power furnished, Chas. E. Black, pres- 
ident; 'W. A. Phelps, vice-president; S. H. 
Bell, secretarv and treasurer 103 

State National Bank, The, president, Samuel 
H. Kennedy; vice-president, Pierre I^anaux ; 
T. R. Roach, cashier; W. P. Nichols, ass't 
cashier S3 

Steers, S. B., the Steers- Morse compress, and 
the Batture cotton press 59 

Stern's Commission House, Sol. Stern, mana- 
ger 124 

Stewart Bros. & Co., commission merchants 
and cotton factors 65 

Stratton, Wm. C, wholesale grocer and com- 
mission merchant 116 

Sutherland's Cotton Pickery, Thos. Suther- 
land, proprietor 104 

Teutonia Insurance Company, The, fire, river 
and marine risks; Wm. B. Schmidt, presi- 
■ dent; Albert P. Noll, secretary 123 



PAGE. 
Theard, J. C, cotton pickery ha 

Theurer, Rudolph F., importer of groceries and 
liquors i^g 

Thomas, S. O. & Co., cotton factors and com- 
mission merchants 85 

Thompson, Edward, dealer in roofing material, 
pitch, plastic slate, oil cloth, paints, etc 139 

Thomson, A., & Co., purchasing merchants, 
making a specialty of sugar, molasses and 
rice j-j, 

Todd, Samuel M., paints, oils, glass, brushes, 
etc 118 

Troy Laundry, The, F. C. Rice and J. E. 
Pierce; steamboat, hotel and restaurant work 
a specialty 164 

Turkish Baths, The, Ur. J. C. Jonas, proprietor 132 

Union National Bank, The, Carl Kohn, pi-esi- 
dent; Stephen Chalaron, cashier 106 

Vergnole, J., importer of liquors and manu- 
facturers of cordials and S3'rups 174 

Villermin, A. & P. A., grocers and commission 
merchants 'i i -jg 

Virginia and Mississippi Presses, The, Lewis 
& Lynd, proprietors , 85 

AVard, John, steam boiler manufacturer 167 

Washburn's Photograph Gallery, photographs, 
portraits, crayons, oils, water color, pastel 
Avork, etc 1^2 

Wasson, J. B., stationer, printer and litho- 
g-i-apher 175 

Wayne, John A., agent for coast packets 
to Bayou Sara, Vicksburg, Memphis, and 
Ouachita river • ug 

West's Son, B. J. & Co., plantation hardware, 
agricultural implements and machinery 116 

West, Douglas, general insurance agency 89 

Wheeler, AV. G., wholesale clothing and fur- 
nishing goods 140 

Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines, W. G. 
Wilson, ag"ent igg 

White,'!. T. & Co., manufacturing and pur- 
chasing agents, commission merchants, gen- 
eral merchandise brokers and dealers in gro- 
cers' sundries 143 

Whitney Iron Works Company, The, Geo. 
Pandely, president; Newell Tilton, manager; 
Wm. J. Cummings, secretary and treasurer. . loo 

Whitney National Bank, The, J as. T. Hayden, 
president; Jas. M. Pagaud, Jr., cashier 153 

Widow George Huye, Steam Box Factory ... ley 

Wilson, Childs& Co. The Philadelphia Wagon 
Works, James Moulton, manager; manufac- 
turers of farm and plantation wagons, carts, 

etc 123 

Woodward. Wight & Co., wholesale and retail 
ship chandlers, grocers, commission mer- 
chants, forwarding and general agents no 

Wolf, B. J. & Sons, steam manufacturers of ; 

j ean p ants g^ 

Woods, A. A., general insurance agency 70 

\Vood, B. D. & Bros, the opposition sea- ( 

going steam tugs and coal yards 63 

Yale & Bowling, wholesale dry goods and 

notions 80. 81 

Zucca, John, jobber and broker in fruit, and 

commission merchant 83 



EXPOSITION EXHIBITORS. 



PAGE. 

Arkwright Silk Mill, The, Paterson, N. J.: 
Doherty & Wadsworth, proprietors; Jas. F, 
Stewart, Exposition representative, 179 

Clark's O. N. T. Spool Cotton. Geo. A. Clark 
& Bro., Paisley, Scotland, and Newark, N. J.: 
Robert Brotherson, Exposition agent, 180 

Pioneer Silk Company. The, Paterion, N. J.: 
John Ryle, Jr., Exposition agent, 179 



Remington, E. & Sons, manufacturers of arms, 
sewing machines, agricultural implements, 
tj'pe writers, etc., at Ilion, N. Y. : 180 

Seth Thomas Clock Company, The, Thomas- 
ton, Conn.: E. P. Baird, representative,. . . 181 

"Willimantic Thread Company, The, Williman- 
tic. Conn.: J. A. Atwood and W.F.Adams, 
Exposition agents, jgi 



i86 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



ADVERTISERS' INDEX. 



Carey, Robert & Co., sujfar, molasses and rice. iS^ 

Chane, John & Sons, cotton factors i8^ 

Citizens Bank of Louisiana, Thos. D. Miller, 

president ; J as. J. Tarleton, cashier l88 

Conger & Kelly, suear and cotton factors iSy 

Delpit Factor)', Tlie, (insid« hack cover) 103 

Elstner, J. M . i^: Co., iiuhlishers 187 

Eustis, J. G., Notary 189 

Fitzwilliani, T. & Co., printers, etc. ...back cover, 

Frankcnbush it Borland, cotton factors 189 

Gooch Freezer Co., The, of Cincinnati 189 



Graham, L. & Son second page of cover. 

Harris, Parker & Co., cotton factors loa 

liyams, H. M., Attorney lOO 

Jurey &: Gillis, cotton factors iSS 

Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Co.. 187 

Mendelsohn, S. (Preston & Merrill) 186 

Su ly, Thos., architect 187 

Tulane University of Louisiana 190, 191 

Waldo, J. Curtis, Southern Publishing House. 189 
Wendling, John & Bro., manufacturers of 
brooms, brushes, etc 186 



,t.i-^^,KS««^. S. MENDELSOHN, 

JL east IT OWder Manufacturers' Agent, 



rHE OI^Ia-Il^T.A.I. 




59 Custoiliouse Street, 



^^ REPRESENTINa 

"H lPRESTON & MERRILL, - - Boston. 

; FABENS cV GRAHAM, - - Boston. 

/GEO. A. MOSS, - - New York City. 

* LEVY & LEVIS, - - New York City, 

PERFECTLY PURE TWISTED WIRE BOX STRAP CO., 
and is the Siroiiffcsl, €lieap« ^^ ,, , ^. 

!?st, aiKl Most Healthful Bread ^^^^ ^^^^ ^'^3 

Preparation made. 

TELIAS BLOCK .^' SONS, - Cincinnati. 

SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. 
.S. i>IENDELSOHN, 
lyent for l^restou, at J'lerriU, O/Hcs 59 Customhouse Street. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 

^^IBRDDMS, BRUSHESj HilNELESj ETCl^ 

No. -48 DECATUR STREKT, 

CarnEr BienvlllB StrEBt, NEW ORLEANS, 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



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LIVERPOOL AND LONDON and GLOBE 

Office corner carondelet & Gravier sts. 



X)irectors ias. ITe-w^ Orlea,a:i.s, 
J. E. SCHRODER, Chairman. Newton Buckner, 

RODOLPHE WOESTE. 



A. Delvaille, 



Assets in the United States^ $5,514^,762.81. 

Surplus over all Liabilities, $2,546,385.12. 

Henry V. Ogden, Resident Sec'y. Jules P. Roux, Ass't Resident Sec'j 

Clarence F. Low, Dep. Ass't Res. Sec'y. 

J. M. ELSTNER & CO., 

33 J Montgomery St., Room 13, San Francisco, Cal., 
26 Carondelet, New Orleans, La. 



State Gazetteers ^ Business and General City Directories., Historical^ Com- 
mercial and Statistical Works., Atlases., etc. 



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(sNo. J1 C^rr|p (^trect, 

THIRD KLOOR, 



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CONGER & KELLY, 

SDGKRt&tCOTTONtFSCTORS 

42 l><^i^<dido Sti^^^t. 



iiddress by Mall In Lcck Box SSDi 



l88 The Industries of New Orleans. 

Citizens' Bank of Louisiana, 

PAID UP CAPITAL, $1,050,000. 

Thomas D. Miller, Pres. Gilbert H. Green, Vice Pres. 

Jas. J. Tarletoii, Cashier. 

:DII^ECTOI^s. 

GILBERT II. GREEN. DUNCAN F. KENNER. 

JAS. I. DAY. HENRY ABRAHAM. 

THOS. D. MILLER. E. F. DEL BONDIO. 

R. MILLIKEN. A. A. LELONG. 

G. A- BREAUX. JOHN CIIAFFE. 

JNO. O. SCANNELL. 

L, C, JuTEj, M, Gillis. 

JUREY & &ILLIS, 

mnm i agtois 



COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 

NEW DRLEHNS, 



JOHN CHAFFE <& SONS., 

And Agent for the Sale of Cotton Seed Oil Products, 

No. 54 UijioR Street, Sorijer Baronne, Keatj" DrlEans. 

R. CAREY. M. E. GARVEY. 

i^OBEI^T C.A.I^E^^ & CO. 
PURCHASING COMMISSION M}:RCHANTS, 

SU&AR, MDLASSES ^^^ RICE SPECIALTIES^ 

Nos. 21, 22, 23 and 24 Front, 

p. O. Box i6Sii. 
CorM.er Eieis-^ille Street, XTETXT OISXjE.A.1^S. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



189 



TIZ& GOOCH: FATS2TT 

Ice Cream Kreez^ers. 




These Freezers are entirely different 
from any other make in the market. By 
their simplicity of construction and perfect 
adaptability to the process of making all 
kinds of Ice Cream, Sherbets, Frozen 
Fruits, &c., they have taken the front rank 
in the market and are universally acknowl- 
edged THE BEST FREEZERS MADE. 

Dealers are constantly taking up the 
sale of them and are discarding inferior 
Freezers heretofore thought good ones, 
Our increase of sales has been NINE 
HUNDRED PER CENT. SINCE 1879, 
showing their great popularity. 

The " Peerless " are made 3-quartjto 
lo-quart for family use and the " Giant," 
with fly-wheel, T4-quart to 42- quart for con- 
fectioners and hotels. 

For sale liy the leading New Orleans Hardware 
and Queenware tradp, 



CiriciiTLnati, Otiio. 



FRANKENBUSH & BORLAND, 

COTTON FACTORS 

AND 

No, 32 PBrdidn StrEEt, 

New Orleans. 

Liberal Advances made on Consignments of Cot- 
ton and other Produce. 



Established 1S69. 



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For all ttie States. 

26 Carondelet St., New Orleans, La. 



J. Curtis Waldo, 

SnuthErn Putilishiiigj 

And Ptioto - EngraYing House 

8 St. Charles St., 

NElSr DRLEANS, 

Attorney & Kounselor-at-Law, 

No. 2^ Cai^oiqcl^lot St. 

New Orleans, La^ 



The Industries of New Orleans. 



191 



TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, 



Medical^ Law^ Collegiate and High School Departments. 

Board of Administrators. 




HON. RANDALL L. GIBSON, 

(U. S. Senator) President. 

HON. CHAS. E. FENNER, 

First Vice-President. 
JAMES McCONNELL, 

Second Vice-President. 
P. N. STRONG, Esq., 

Treasurer. 



WM. PRESTON JOHNSTON, 

President of University. 
RANDELL HUNT, 

Emeritus Kector, 

WM. F. MELLEN, Esq., 

Dean of Law Department. 
T. G. RICHARDSON, M. D., 

Dean of Medical Department. 



TULAKE HALL. 



A full Corps of 30 Able Professors in all Df^partments of Instruction. 

Full collegiate courses in Languages, Literature and Sciences. The instruction in 
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, English Language and Literature is scientific and thorough. 
Modevn Languages are a specialty. French, German, Spanish and Italian are taught in 
their literature and as mother tongues, with board in good families speaking correctly. 

In the Departments of Physics, Mechanics and Chemistry, special attention is di- 
rected to the elevation of these branches of science to the industries of the country. 
The steam engine, the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, photography, the 
theory and use of the saccharometer in sugar determinations, etc., receive due attention. 
The subjects are fully illustrated by experiments and as far as practicable, the students 
themselves repeat the experiments. 

A Course in Double-entrv Book-keeping and Penmanship has been added. 

The HIGH SCHOOL is "preparatory to the Collegiate Department and receives 
students at the age of twelve yeai-s. Latin, Greek, Elementary Physics and Chemistry, 
German, French, Spanish and Italian, and Drawing are taught in addition to those 
• branches necessary for a good English education. 

A MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL is being organized for instruction in shop 
work and the principles of Mechanical Arts. The school is under the direction of 
Prof. J. M. Ordway, late of the Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. 

DRAWING. A Master of Drawing has been added to the faculty and unusual 
opportunities are offered to students in this useful branch. 

The Medical Department, in its fifty-second year, has nine professors employed. 
The students have the use of the great Charity Hospital as a school of practical in- 
struction. 

The Law School has a faculty of four professors. The Civil Law is taught in 
theory and practice. Graduates of the University are authorized to practice law in all 
the courts of the State. WM. O. ROGERS, WM. PRESTON JOHNSTON, 

Secretary of University. President of University. 



J. L. HARRIS. 



The Industries of New Orleans. 

J. M. PARKER. THOS. DAY. 



Harris, Parker & Co., 



Cotton Factors 



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No. 38 Perdido St., 



New Orleans. 



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LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS 




S^^^ Exchange, 

Checks,|^otes,Draft3, 

Letter, Note & 
hill heads, 

Wedding Invitations, • 

SOCIET/ jNVlTATiONS. 



FINE WeRK^v^ 

MODERATE PRICES. PROMPT ATTENTION 



Bank & Insurance Books 
AND Blanks. 

WE SHALL BE GLAD TO SERVE OUR 
FRIENDS EITHER BY CORT?ESPONDENCE 
OR IN PERSON. 

62CAMPSt8tl5BAMKPlACE:. 

New Orleans . 



